Association of a variable number tandem repeat in the NLRP3 gene in women with susceptibility to RVVC

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 797-801

  Jaeger, M ^a   Carvalho, A ^b   Cunha, C ^b   Plantinga, T S ^a   van de Veerdonk, F ^a   Puccetti, M ^b   Galosi, C ^b   Joosten, L A B ^a   Dupont, B ^c   Kullberg, B J ^a   Sobel, J D ^d   Romani, L ^b   Netea, M G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOPYRIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; CYTOKINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT VULVOVAGINAL CANDIDOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TH17 CELL; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ALLELES; CANDIDIASIS, VULVOVAGINAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; NLR FAMILY, PYRIN DOMAIN-CONTAINING 3 PROTEIN;

EID: 84960078319     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-016-2600-5     Document Type: Article

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