Meningococcal Disease in Congenital Absence of the Fifth Component of Complement
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 19 (6) , 635-639
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00365548709117198
Abstract
We describe a family in which 2 brothers had meningococcal infection, 1 of them twice. Their parents were first degree cousins. The brothers showed a complete, isolated deficiency of C5, both antigenic and functional. The parents had half-normal values, and the data are compatible with an inherited C5 deficiency where the defect is transmitted as an autosomal codominant trait.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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