Posttreatment Downregulation of Type III Interferons in Patients with Acute Brucellosis

• Main Authors: Mehran Shokri (Author), Oreinab Ghaffari Khonakdar (Author), Mousa Mohammadnia-Afrouzi (Author), Mahmoud Sadeghi- (Author), Amirhossein Hasanpour (Author), Mohammad Barary (Author), Soheil Ebrahimpour (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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There is a limited number of clinical studies on interferon (IFN) levels in human brucellosis. The novel group of interferons, type III interferons, which consists of four IFN-λ (lambda) molecules called IFN-λ1 or interleukin-29 (IL-29), IFN-λ2 or IL-28A, IFN-λ3 or IL-28B, and IFN-λ4, is not fully k...