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Association between familial deficiency of mannose-binding lectin and mutations in the corresponding gene and promoter region.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 Jul 2004
Salimans M M M, Bax W A, Stegeman F, van Deuren M, Bartelink A K M, van Dijk H
Abstract excerpt
In a recent report, our group presented clinical research data supporting the role of mannose-binding lectin (MBL) deficiency in susceptibility to meningococcal disease (W. A. Bax, O. J. J. Cluysenaer, A. K. M. Bartelink, P. C. Aerts, R. A. B. Ezekowitz, and H. van Dijk, Lancet 354:1094-1095, 1999). This association was reported earlier by Hibberd et al. (M. L. Hibberd, M. Sumiya, J. A. Summerfield, R. Booy, M....
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