Comparison of Nramp1 gene polymorphism among TB health care workers and recently infected cases; assessment of host susceptibility

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Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-24

  Farnia, Parisa ^a   Pajand, Omid ^a   Anoosheh, Saber ^a   Tabarsi, Payam ^a   Dizaji, Mehdi Kazampour ^a   Mohammadi, Forozan ^a   Varahram, Mohammad ^a   Baghaei, Parvaneh ^a   Bahadori, Moslem ^a   Masjedi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Velayati, Ali Akbar ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; Nramp gene polymorphism; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 1;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HETEROZYGOSITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTRON; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953385995     PISSN: 17350344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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