Association of polymorphisms in inflammatory cytokines encoding genes with severe cases of influenza A/H1N1 and B in an Iranian population

Abstract Background The increased levels of blood cytokines is the main immunopathological process that were attributed to severe clinical outcomes in cases of influenza A, influenza B and people with influenza-like illness (ILI). Functional genetic polymorphisms caused by single nucleotide polymorp...

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Main Authors: Mohsen Keshavarz, Haideh Namdari, Mohammad Farahmand, Parvaneh Mehrbod, Talat Mokhtari-Azad, Farhad Rezaei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:Virology Journal
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12985-019-1187-8