Genetic epidemiology of host predisposition microfilaraemia in human loiasis
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 4 (8) , 565-574
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00442.x
Abstract
Summary Evidence is accumulating from experimental and human studies that genetic factors are involved both in the control of infectious diseases and in the regulation of infection levels and clinica...Keywords
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