Screening for complement deficiency in bacterial meningitis
| Autor: | Urs B. Schaad, P J Späth, C Aebi, T Ernst, Mario G. Bianchetti |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Male
Alternate pathway Adolescent Complement Pathway Alternative Meningitis Meningococcal Meningitis Bacterial Classical complement pathway Reference Values medicine Humans Complement Pathway Classical Child business.industry Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Infant General Medicine Complement System Proteins Complement deficiency medicine.disease Complement system Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Immunology Meningococcal meningitis C8 complex Bacterial meningitis Female business Meningitis Switzerland |
| Zdroj: | Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992). 86(9) |
| ISSN: | 0803-5253 |
| Popis: | Seventy-seven children with bacterial meningitis were screened for complement deficiency. Both the classical and the alternate pathways were normal in 75 patients. Transiently reduced total haemolytic activity of the classical pathway was documented in a boy with meningococcal meningitis. Total haemolytic activity of both the classical and the alternate pathways were reduced in another patient with pneumococcal meningitis: individual complement components determination indicated predominant activation of the alternate pathway. |
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