Host genetic contribution to the cellular immune response to Chlamydia trachomatis: Heritability estimate from a Gambian twin study

Drugs of Today

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL. B, 2009, Pages 45-50

  Bailey, Robin L ^a   Natividad Sancho, A ^a   Fowler, A ^b   Peeling, R W W ^c   Mabey, D C W ^a   Whittle, H C ^d   Jepson, A P ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LAB CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL CHILD; TWINS; ZYGOSITY;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 60049091592     PISSN: 16993993     EISSN: 16994019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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