Genetic risk factors for human susceptibility to infections of relevance in dermatology Fatores de risco genético para a suscetibilidade humana à infecções de relevância em dermatologia

• Main Authors: José Felipe Jardim Sardinha (Author), Roberto Gomes Tarlé (Author), Vinícius Medeiros Fava (Author), Angela Schneider Francio (Author), Geovana Brotto Ramos (Author), Luiz Carlos de Lima Ferreira (Author), Nicolaus Albert Borges Schriefer (Author), Marcelo Távora Mira (Author), Sinésio Talhari (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2011-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: In the pre-microbiological era, it was widely accepted that diseases, today known to be infectious, were hereditary. With the discovery of microorganisms and their role in the pathogenesis of several diseases, it was suggested that exposure to the pathogen was enough to explain infection...