Chronic Granulomatous Disease on Jeju Island, Korea
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Chronic Granulomatous Disease on Jeju Island, Korea
chia coli, non-typhoid Salmonella species, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Serratia marcescens, and Burkholderia cepacia, as well as the fungal genus Aspergillus. 3-6) Isolation of the causative pathogens is essential for appropriate antimicrobial therapy, but it is difficult to identify the causative pathogen in most clinical CGD cases. 6) NADPH oxidase is a multi-component complex composed of a plasma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Genetic Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1226-1769,2383-8442
DOI: 10.5734/jgm.2013.10.1.1