Enrichment of variations in KIR3DL1/S1 and KIR2DL2/L3 among H1N1/09 ICU patients: an exploratory study.

BACKGROUND: Infection by the pandemic influenza A (H1N1/09) virus resulted in significant pathology among specific ethnic groups worldwide. Natural Killer (NK) cells are important in early innate immune responses to viral infections. Activation of NK cells, in part, depend on killer-cell immunoglobu...

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Main Authors: David La, Chris Czarnecki, Hani El-Gabalawy, Anand Kumar, Adrienne F A Meyers, Nathalie Bastien, J Neil Simonsen, Francis A Plummer, Ma Luo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3247251?pdf=render