From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 17:23:48 MST
It turns out that ones genetic makeup may play a key role
in susceptibility to flesh eating bacteria.
See:
Flesh-eating disease linked to gene differences
New Scientist 17 Nov 02
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993067
A related PubMed Document:
Differential presentation of group A streptococcal superantigens by HLA
class II DQ and DR alleles.
Eur J Immunol 2002 Sep;32(9):2570-7
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12207341&dopt=Abstract
It is distinctly possible that these folks work across the
street from Anders (its a small world after all...).
Robert
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