Single nucleotide polymorphisms in TLR9 are highly associated with susceptibility to bacterial meningitis in children

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 475-480

  Sanders, Marieke S ^a,b   Van Well, Gijs Th J ^b,c   Ouburg, Sander ^a   Lundberg, Patric S J ^d   Van Furth, A Marceline ^b   Morré, Servaas A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA ISOLATION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 9;

EID: 79951828121     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq155     Document Type: Article

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