Otitis media (OM) is a common childhood disease characterised by middle ear inflammation following infection ...

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• 2011
• July 2011

Dissection of the genetics of Parkinson's disease identifies an additional association 5' of SNCA and multiple associated haplotypes at 17q21We performed... ...

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• 2011
• January 2011

The P2X7R is highly expressed on the macrophage cell surface, and activation of infected cells by extracellular ATP has been shown to kill intracellular bacte ...

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• 2010
• June 2010

Here we examined single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these genes as risk factors for cutaneous (CL) and mucosal leishmaniasis (ML), and leishmaniasis... ...

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• 2015
• March 2015

Viruses, bacteria, and parasites have developed strategies to invade and establish long-term infections in their hosts. ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Uniformly low expression of IFN and IFNGR1 in PKDL skin biopsies could explain parasite persistence ...

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• 2014
• December 2014

Using data from three large-scale genetic association studies we compared recruitment strategy and sample return rates. ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

The interaction between genotype and Epstein Barr virus emerges as relevant for multiple sclerosis etiology. ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

This study was the first to concurrently identify middle ear pathogens in both bacterial biofilm and intracellularly in the middle ear mucosa of children and to identify extensive DNA stranding in the MEF from children with AOM ...

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• 2012
• December 2012

IL8RA and IL8RB, encoded by CXCR1 and CXCR2, are receptors for interleukin (IL)-8 and other CXC chemokines involved in chemotaxis and activation of... ...

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• 2011
• December 2011

Otitis media (OM) is among the most common illnesses of early childhood, characterised by the presence of inflammation in the middle ear cavity... ...

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• 2011
• February 2011

The last decade has seen rapid advances in the genetic technology that is allowing researchers to examine host-pathogen interactions at a whole organism level. ...

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• 2010
• August 2010