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Meningococcal Infections

 
 
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Disease relevance of Meningococcal Infections

 

High impact information on Meningococcal Infections

  • The meningococcal class 1 outer membrane protein (OMP) plays an important role in the development of protective immunity against meningococcal infection, and is therefore considered to be a promising candidate antigen (Ag) for a meningococcal vaccine [6].
  • Antibody against both the protein serotype antigen and the capsular polysaccharide were induced as a result of meningococcal infection [7].
  • Because we had no information on genotypes of patients who died, we also genotyped 183 first-degree relatives of a consecutive series of patients with meningococcal infection for the 4G/5G deletion/insertion polymorphism in the promoter region of the plasminogen-activator-inhibitor-1 gene (PAI-1) [8].
  • It is possible that C6-deficient patients have reduced mortality from meningococcal infection because their serum cannot cause acute release of endotoxin from the invading organism and extensive tissue damage is thus avoided [9].
  • Sensing via TLR4 probably contributes to the early containment of meningococcal infection, and sensing defects create increased risk of disease [10].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Meningococcal Infections

 

Biological context of Meningococcal Infections

 

Anatomical context of Meningococcal Infections

 

Gene context of Meningococcal Infections

 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Meningococcal Infections

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