A case of familial meningococcal disease due to deficiency in mannose-binding lectin (MBL)

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 531, Issue , 2003, Pages 351-355

  Kuipers, Saskia ^a   Aerts, Piet C ^a   Cluysenaer, Onno J J ^b   Bartelink, Albert K M ^b   Ezekowitz, R Alan B ^c   Bax, Willem A ^b   Salimans, Marcel ^b   Vandyk, Hans ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MEANDER MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FAMILIAL MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0042384966     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0059-9_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Bax, W.A., Cluysenaer, O.J.J., Bartelink, A.K.M., Aerts, P.C., Ezekowitz, R.A.B., and van Dijk, H., 1999, Association of familial deficiency of mannose-binding lectin and meningococcal disease. The Lancet 354: 1094-1095.
2. Kuipers, S., Aerts, P.C., Sjöholm, A.G., Harmsen, T. and Vandyk, H., 2002, A hemolytic assay for the estimation of functional mannose-binding lectin levels in human serum. Journal of Immunological Methods 268:149-157.
3. Kuipers, S., Aerts, P.C., and Vandyk, H., Differential microorganism-induced mannose-binding lectin activation. FEMS Immunology and Med. Microbiol., 1510 (2003) 1-7.