<it>Surfactant protein B </it>polymorphisms are associated with severe respiratory syncytial virus infection, but not with asthma
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Surfactant proteins (SP) are important for the innate host defence and essential for a physiological lung function. Several linkage and association studies have investigated the genes coding for different surfactant proteins in the c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2007-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Pulmonary Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2466/7/6 |