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Tuberculosis
Reports from Zhejiang University add new data to research in tuberculosis
September 30th, 2008
According to a study from Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, "The aim of the study was to examine the influence of the CA microsatellite polymorphisms of interferon gamma receptor 1 on patients with tuberculosis (TB) in the south-eastern Chinese population. Genomic DNA from patients with TB (n = 155) and ethnically matched controls (n = 89) were genotyped by short tandem repeat-PCR method." "The allele frequency of (CA)(25) was 1.70-fold higher among patients than that among controls (95% CI 1.07-2.70) (P = 0.025). Compared with the non-(CA)(25)/non-(CA)(25) reference group, the risk to TB of the carriers of (CA)(25)/(CA)(25) genotypes were 6.46-fold (95% CI...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-30)
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