Toll-like receptor 4 gene (TLR4), but not TLR2, polymorphisms modify the risk of tonsillar disease due to streptococcus pyogenes and haemophilus influenzae

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-222

  Liadaki, Kyriaki ^a   Petinaki, Efthimia ^a   Skoulakis, Charalampos ^b   Tsirevelou, Paraskeui ^b   Klapsa, Dimitra ^a   Germenis, Anastasios E ^a   Speletas, Matthaios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Volos   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BONE MARROW; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TONSILLAR HYPERTROPHY; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TONSILLITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551479872     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00460-10     Document Type: Article

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