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Deficiency of the sixth component of complement and susceptibility to Neisseria meningitidis infections: studies in 10 families and five isolated cases.

Complement component C6 deficiency (C6D) was diagnosed in 15 patients who presented, independently, with recurrent meningococcal infection. This condition is thus not particularly rare in the Cape. Ten of the patients belonged to multiplex families, and family studies led to the diagnosis of another...

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Main Authors: Orren, A, Potter, P C, Cooper, R C, du Toit, E
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1987
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1453963/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3679285
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