Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and typhoid fever in Vietnam

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Nguyen, Thi Hue ^a,b   Mai, Ngoc Lanh ^c   Le, Thi Phuong ^c   Ha, Vinh ^b   Nguyen, Tran Chinh ^b   Tran, Tinh Hien ^b   Nguyen, T Hieu ^e   Farrar, Jeremy J ^a,d   Dunstan, Sarah J ^a,d  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c Dong Thap Provincial Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Hung Vuong Hospital   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENDOTOXIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TYPHOID FEVER; VIET NAM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA TYPHI;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TYPHOID FEVER; VIETNAM;

EID: 67649566370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004800     Document Type: Article

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