Vitamin D status, vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism, and haplotype in patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis: Correlation with susceptibility and parasite load index.

• Hauptverfasser: Doaa A Salem (VerfasserIn), Mohammad A Alghamdi (VerfasserIn), Hasan S Al-Ghamdi (VerfasserIn), Bakheet A Alghamdi (VerfasserIn), Ayman Zaki Elsayed Elsamanoudi (VerfasserIn), Abdulkarim Hasan (VerfasserIn)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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<h4>Background</h4>CL endemicity was reported worldwide including in Saudi Arabia, imposing a major challenge on the health authorities. Vitamin D and its receptor (VDR) are key modulators of the immune response where the VDR is expressed. A remarkable lack of data exists in humans about...