Variation in the NRAMP1 gene does not affect susceptibility or protection in human brucellosis

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 154-156

  Bravo, Maria José ^a   Colmenero, Juan De Dios ^a   Martín, Javier ^b   Alonso, Antonio ^a   Caballero González, Abelardo ^a  

^a HOSPITAL REGIONAL UNIVERSITARIO DE MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Human brucellosis; NRAMP1; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

BOVINAE;

EID: 31344452144     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

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