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Genetic PTX3 Deficiency and Aspergillosis in Stem-Cell Transplantation

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2014

Year

Cristina Cunha, Franco Aversa, João F. Lacerda, Alessandro Busca, Oliver Kurzai, Matthias Grube, Jürgen Löffler, Johan Maertens, Alain S. Bell, Antonio Inforzato,
New England Journal of Medicine

Abstract

Genetic deficiency of PTX3 affects the antifungal capacity of neutrophils and may contribute to the risk of invasive aspergillosis in patients treated with HSCT. (Funded by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and others.).

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