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Variants at the promoter of the interleukin-6 gene are associated with severity and outcome of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia.
Intensive Care Med
February 2012
Critical Care Centre, Corporació Sanitaria Parc Tauli-University Hospital Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain.
Purpose: Conflicting results about the role of genetic variability at IL6, particularly the -174 G/C single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), in sepsis have been reported. We studied the genetic variability at IL6 in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and pneumococcal CAP (P-CAP).
Methods: This was a multicenter, prospective observational study.