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Rheumatic heart disease in Uganda: the association between MHC class II HLA DR alleles and disease: a case control study

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD), the only long term consequence of acute rheumatic fever, remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young adults in Uganda. An inherited susceptibility to acute rheumatic fever centers around the major histocompatibility class II human leucocy...

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Autores principales: Okello, Emmy, Beaton, Andrea, Mondo, Charles K, Kruszka, Paul, Kiwanuka, Noah, Odoi-Adome, Richard, Freers, Juergen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3943278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24581333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-14-28