Association of common genetic variant with susceptibility to invasive pneumococcal disease

British Medical Journal

Volumn 324, Issue 7350, 2002, Pages 1369-

  Roy, S ^a   Hill, A V S ^a   Knox, K ^b   Griffiths, D ^b   Crook, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0037042671     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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3. Interaction of C-reactive protein complexes with the complement system. I. Consumption of human complement associated with the reaction of C-reactive protein with pneumococcal C-polysaccharide and with choline phosphatides, lecithin and sphingomyelin