Association of susceptibility to brucellosis and interleukin-4 promoter polymorphism

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1045-1049

  Rezazadeh, Mehdi ^a   Hajilooi, Mehrdad ^b   Haidari, Mehran ^c   Rafiei, Alireza ^d   Alavi, Ahmad Seyed ^a   Keramat, Fariba ^a  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

ADULT; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-4; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 33845333857     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600786473     Document Type: Article

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