Lipoprotein Lipase and PPAR Alpha Gene Polymorphisms, Increased Very-Low-Density Lipoprotein Levels, and Decreased High-Density Lipoprotein Levels as Risk Markers for the Development of Visceral Leishmaniasis by Leishmania infantum

• Main Authors: Márcia Dias Teixeira Carvalho (Author), Diego Peres Alonso (Author), Célia Maria Vieira Vendrame (Author), Dorcas Lamounier Costa (Author), Carlos Henrique Nery Costa (Author), Guilherme Loureiro Werneck (Author), Paulo Eduardo Martins Ribolla (Author), Hiro Goto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In visceral leishmaniasis (VL) endemic areas, a minority of infected individuals progress to disease since most of them develop protective immunity. Therefore, we investigated the risk markers of VL within nonimmune sector. Analyzing infected symptomatic and, asymptomatic, and noninfected individual...