Genetic epidemiology of visceral leishma
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C.S. Peacock; A. Collins; M.-A. Shaw; F. Silveira; J. Costa; C.H. Coste; M.D. Na
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Familial clustering of disease, racial differences in asymptomatic:disease ratios, and studies of mice all point to a genetic component for disease susceptibility in visceral leishmaniasis. Analysis of 87 multi-case pedigrees (824 individuals; 138 nuclear families) from a region of northeastern Braz