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SUBMITTER: Zayed RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5361552 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zayed Rania A RA Omran Dalia D Mokhtar Doha A DA Zakaria Zinab Z Ezzat Sameera S Soliman Mohamed A MA Mobarak Lamiaa L El-Sweesy Hossam H Emam Ghada G
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20170301 3
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are recognized as fundamental contributors to the immune system function against infections. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection represents a global health problem especially in Egypt having the highest HCV prevalence worldwide where HCV infection is a continuing epidemic. The aim of the present study was to investigate the possible association between genetic variation in TLR-3 and TLR-9 and HCV infection and hepatic fibrosis in chronic HCV-positive Egyptian patients. T ...[more]