- Abstract:
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Before Robert Koch's work in the late nineteenth century, diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy were widely believed to be inherited disorders. Heritability of susceptibility to several infectious diseases has been confirmed by studies in the twentieth century. Infectious diseases, old and new, continue to be an important cause of mortality worldwide. A greater understanding of disease processes is needed if more effective therapies and more useful vaccines are to be produced. As part of ...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Nature reviews. Genetics
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- 967-977
- Publication date:
- 2001-12-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-0064
- ISSN:
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1471-0056
- URN:
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uuid:23cdd800-8aff-4444-aec7-a8dd99472427
- Source identifiers:
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32005
- Local pid:
- pubs:32005
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2001
Journal article
Genetics of susceptibility to human infectious disease.
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