We took advantage of the 2015-2016 Brazilian arbovirus outbreak (ZIKV/DENV/CHIKV), associated with neurological complications, to type HLA-DRB1/DQA1/DQB1 variants in patients exhibiting neurological complications and in bone marrow donors from the same endemic geographical region.

. DRB1/DQA1/DQB1 loci were typed using sequence-specific…[Read more]