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The Genetics of Host Resistance and Susceptibility to Tuberculosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2001
Abstract: The study of human genomics has the potential to aid our understanding of the interindividual and interpopulation differences in susceptibility to tuberculosis. Resistance to infection is affected by the ability of macrophages to phagocytose and destroy the bacilli.
P, Davies, J, Grange
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Physiologic Basis of Host Susceptibility

JOGN Nursing, 1983
Host defense mechanisms are reviewed with examination of aspects particular to the increased susceptibility found in neonates. Three main factors contributing to increased susceptibility are identified: inexperienced immune system, immature phagocytosis, and an inability to localize infection.
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Host Susceptibility as a Component in Host-Parasitoid Systems

The Journal of Animal Ecology, 1984
Utilisation du modele de simulation de Monte Carlo dans lequel les hotes sont soit tous egalement sensibles au parasitisme ou presentent un degre de sensibilite qui varie au hasard (dans le cadre d'etudes sur la dynamique des populations d'hotes et de parasites)
M. P. Hassell, R. M. Anderson
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Host-susceptibility factors in cancer etiology

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1986
Summary Studies of persons at high risk of cancer, identified by virtue of environmental exposures, genetic traits, or family history of cancer, offer unique opportunities for understanding mechanisms of cancer risk. Clinical observations have provided many new insights into initiating etiologic studies.
M C, Fraser, M A, Tucker
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Host inbreeding increases susceptibility to ectoparasitism

Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2006
Abstract Inbreeding, which increases homozygosity throughout the genome by increasing the proportion of alleles that are identical by descent, is expected to compromise resistance against parasitism. Here, we demonstrate that host inbreeding increases susceptibility to ectoparasitism in a natural fruit fly (
L T, Luong, B D, Heath, M, Polak
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Genetic host resistance and susceptibility to leprosy

Microbes and Infection, 2006
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that affects 600,000 new individuals worldwide every year. This article summarizes some of the advances achieved over the past decades towards the description of the exact number, location and nature of the genetic variants responsible for the well established genetic component controlling leprosy susceptibility ...
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Host Susceptibility and Acetaminophen Liver Injury

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1977
Excerpt For most patients and consumers of over-the counter drugs, acetaminophen is safe when used appropriately.
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Genetics of Prion Diversity and Host Susceptibility

1991
Although all priori diseases, including familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and Gerstmann—Straussler syndrome (GSS), are transmissible by inoculation, several features distinguish them from conventional infectious diseases. Scrapie, CJD and GSS are afebrile and proceed in the apparent absence of an immune response against the agent.
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Host susceptibility to indoor air pollution

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1994
is no scientific evidence whatsoever that this syndrome even exists. The majority of these people, we think, have other kinds of problems."' The following discussion will deal with host factors and susceptibility to adverse indoor air pollution. An important question is whether the persons affected derive their response because of some preexisting ...
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Host Genetic Susceptibility to Infection

2008
The risk of infection depends on complex interactions among the host, the pathogen, and the environment. Some pathogens, such as Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae, can cause serious life-threatening illness in healthy individuals, while others, such as Pneumocystis carinii, rely more on deficiencies in the host’s immune system, for ...
Shamez N. Ladhani, Robert Booy
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