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SUBMITTER: Garcia P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3807203 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garcia Patricia P Alencar Dayse D Pinto Pablo P Santos Ney N Salgado Claudio C Sortica Vinicius A VA Hutz Mara H MH Ribeiro-dos-Santos Ândrea  Santos Sidney S
Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 20130821 10
Leprosy is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae characterized by dermatoneurological signs and symptoms that has a large number of new cases worldwide. Several studies have associated interleukin 10 with susceptibility/resistance to several diseases. We investigated haplotypes formed by three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in the IL10 gene (A-1082G, C-819T, and C-592A) in order to better understand the susceptibility to and severity of leprosy in an admixed northe ...[more]