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SUBMITTER: Lee PL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1475880 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Pauline L PL West Carol C Crain Karen K Wang Lei L
Journal of negative results in biomedicine 20060411
Susceptibility to infection by bacterium such as Bacillus anthracis has a genetic basis in mice and may also have a genetic basis in humans. In the limited human cases of inhalation anthrax, studies suggest that not all individuals exposed to anthrax spores were infected, but rather, individuals with underlying lung disease, particularly asthma, sarcoidosis and tuberculosis, might be more susceptible. In this study, we determined if polymorphisms in genes important in innate immunity are associa ...[more]