Tuberculosis bacilli still posing a threat. Polymorphism of genes regulating anti-mycobacterial properties of macrophages

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-12

  Druszczyńska, Magdalena ^a   Strapagiel, Dominik ^a   Kwiatkowska, Sylwia ^b   Kowalewicz Kulbat, Magdalena ^a   Rózalska, Barbara ^a   Chmiela, Magdalena ^a   Rudnicka, Wiesława ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

CD14; MBL; NRAMP 1; Polymorphism; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CD14 ANTIGEN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; ANTIGENS, CD14; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33646484081     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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