Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is associated with glucocorticoid receptor gene polymorphisms

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 814-818

  Van Den Akker, Erica L T ^a   Nouwen, Jan L ^a   Melles, Damian C ^a   Van Rossum, Elisabeth F C ^a   Koper, Jan W ^a   Uitterlinden, André G ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a   Pols, Huibert A ^a   Lamberts, Steven W J ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LYSINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CODON; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AGED; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE ORDER; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33745783528     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506367     Document Type: Article

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