The role of human innate immune factors in nasal colonization by Staphylococcus aureus.
Staphylococcus aureus colonization of the human nares predisposes to sometimes severe auto-infection. To investigate whether genetic polymorphism affects the S. aureus carriage status, sequence variation in alpha-defensin and beta-defensin, and mannose-binding lectin (MBL) genes were determined for...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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