The relationship of serum vitamins A, D, E and LL-37 levels with allergic status, tonsillar virus detection and immune response

Varpu Elenius; Oscar Palomares; Matti Waris; Riitta Turunen; Tuomo Puhakka; Beate Rückert; Tytti Vuorinen; Tobias Allander; Tero Vahlberg; Mübeccel Akdis; Carlos A. Camargo Jr; Cezmi A. Akdis; Tuomas Jartti

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172350

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The relationship of serum vitamins A, D, E and LL-37 levels with allergic status, tonsillar virus detection and immune response

Varpu Elenius ,

* E-mail: varpu.elenius@utu.fi

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Oscar Palomares,

Affiliations Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos, Switzerland, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Chemistry, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain
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Matti Waris,

Affiliation Department of Virology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Riitta Turunen,

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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Tuomo Puhakka,

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Satakunta Central Hospital, Pori, Finland
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Beate Rückert,

Affiliation Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos, Switzerland
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Tytti Vuorinen,

Affiliation Department of Virology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Tobias Allander,

Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tero Vahlberg,

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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Mübeccel Akdis,

Affiliation Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos, Switzerland
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Carlos A. Camargo Jr,

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
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Cezmi A. Akdis,

Affiliation Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zürich, Christine Kühne-Center for Allergy Research and Education (CK-CARE), Davos, Switzerland
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Tuomas Jartti

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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The relationship of serum vitamins A, D, E and LL-37 levels with allergic status, tonsillar virus detection and immune response

Varpu Elenius,
Oscar Palomares,
Matti Waris,
Riitta Turunen,
Tuomo Puhakka,
Beate Rückert,
Tytti Vuorinen,
Tobias Allander,
Tero Vahlberg,
Mübeccel Akdis

Published: February 24, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172350

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