Polymorphisms in Chemokine Receptor 5 and Toll-Like Receptor 3 Genes Are Risk Factors for Clinical Tick-Borne Encephalitis in the Lithuanian Population

• Auksė Mickienė ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Auksė Mickienė, Jolita Pakalnienė

  * E-mail: aukse.mickiene@lsmuni.lt

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Unit for Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Jolita Pakalnienė ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Auksė Mickienė, Jolita Pakalnienė

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

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• Johan Nordgren,

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Virology, Medical Faculty, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Beatrice Carlsson,

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Virology, Medical Faculty, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Marie Hagbom,

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Virology, Medical Faculty, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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• Lennart Svensson,

  Affiliations Division of Molecular Virology, Medical Faculty, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

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• Lars Lindquist

  Affiliation Unit for Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

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