Hepatitis B Virus Infection Among Leprosy Patients: A Case for Polymorphisms Compromising Activation of the Lectin Pathway and Complement Receptors

Hepatitis B Virus Infection Among Leprosy Patients: A Case for Polymorphisms Compromising Activation of the Lectin Pathway and Complement Receptors

Thousands of leprosy patients not only suffer from physical deformities, but also either have or have had hepatitis B virus (HBV) coinfection. Polymorphisms of the complement system modulate susceptibility to leprosy, but genetic susceptibility to past or present HBV infection is unknown. We used se...

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Main Authors: Angelica Beate Winter Boldt, Camila de Freitas Oliveira-Toré, Gabriela Canalli Kretzschmar, Hellen Weinschutz Mendes, Sérvio Túlio Stinghen, Fabiana Antunes Andrade, Valéria Bumiller-Bini, Letícia Boslooper Gonçalves, Anna Carolina de Moraes Braga, Ewalda von Rosen Seeling Stahlke, Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan, Steffen Thiel, Iara José Taborda de Messias-Reason
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
mannose-binding protein-associated serine proteases
mannose-binding lectin
ficolin
leprosy
complement 3b receptors
genetic polymorphisms
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.574457/full

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