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Toll-Like Receptor-1 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism 1805T/G Is Associated With Predisposition to Multibacillary Tuberculosis.

ABSTRACT: Tuberculosis (TB), caused by mycobacterial species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, is a serious global health issue. Brazil is among the 22 countries with the highest number of TB cases, and the state of Amazonas has the highest incidence of TB cases in the country. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are important pattern recognition receptors of the innate immunity and play a key role in orchestrating an effective immune response. We investigated whether the single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) 1805T/G TLR1, 2258G/A TLR2, 896A/G and 1196C/T of TLR4, 745T/C TLR6, and -1237A/G and -1486A/G of TLR9 are associated with the predisposition to TB and/or bacillary load. The SNPs genotyping was performed by nucleotide sequencing in 263 TB patients and 232 healthy controls residing in the state of Amazonas. Alleles and genotypes frequencies were similar between patients and healthy individuals for most of the investigated SNPs. Stratification of the TB patients according to their bacillary load showed that the genotype 1805TT TLR1 (rs5743618) was prevalent among paucibacillary patients [odds ratio (OR)?=?0.38; 95% confidence interval (CI)?=?0.19-0.76; p?=?0.009] while the genotype 1805TG was common among multibacillary patients (OR?=?3.72; CI?=?1.65-8.4; p?=?0.004). Comparison of demographic characteristics of patients to controls showed that TB is strongly associated with smoking (OR?=?6.55; 95% CI?=?3.2-13.6; p?

SUBMITTER: Barletta-Naveca RH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6026633 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Toll-Like Receptor-1 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism 1805T/G Is Associated With Predisposition to Multibacillary Tuberculosis.

Barletta-Naveca Raphaela Honorato RH Naveca Felipe Gomes FG de Almeida Vanessa Alves VA Porto Jorge Ivan Rebelo JIR da Silva George Allan Villarouco GAV Ogusku Mauricio Morishi MM Sadahiro Aya A Ramasawmy Rajendranath R Boechat Antonio Luiz AL

Frontiers in immunology 20180625

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by mycobacterial species of the <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> complex, is a serious global health issue. Brazil is among the 22 countries with the highest number of TB cases, and the state of Amazonas has the highest incidence of TB cases in the country. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are important pattern recognition receptors of the innate immunity and play a key role in orchestrating an effective immune response. We investigated whether the single-nucleotide polymorp ...[more]

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