Innate immunity in ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: contribution of IL8 and CSF2 gene variants to risk of trachomatous scarring in Gambians

BACKGROUND: Trachoma, a chronic keratoconjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, is the world's commonest infectious cause of blindness. Blindness is due to progressive scarring of the conjunctiva (trachomatous scarring) leading to in-turning of eyelashes (trichiasis) and corneal opacifica...

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Autors principals: Natividad, Angels, Hull, Jeremy, Luoni, Gaia, Holland, Martin, Rockett, Kirk, Joof, Hassan, Burton, Matthew, Mabey, David, Kwiatkowski, Dominic, Bailey, Robin
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: BioMed Central 2009
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810293/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20015396
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-10-138
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