Reactivity to mycobacterial antigens by patients with Löfgren's syndrome as a model of phenotypic susceptibility to disease and disease progression

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 685-

  Amicosante, Massimo ^a   Puxeddu, Ermanno ^a   Saltini, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA DR ANTIGEN; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; BINDING SITE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EX VIVO STUDY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; LOFGREN SYNDROME; LUNG LAVAGE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 70349456798     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.180.7.685     Document Type: Letter

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