eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | meningococcal infection |
| Comorbidity | C0272242|complement deficiency |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 24104403 | An apparent strong association between complement deficiencies and invasive neisserial infections prompted several studies to estimate the frequency of complement deficiencies among patients with their first episode of systemic neisserial infection.91,114-126 figueroa and densen31 studied the correlation between the incidence of complement deficiency in patients with meningococcal disease vs. the incidence of meningococcal disease in the general population and showed that the rate of complement deficiencies detected dropped in areas the incidence of disease was high. |
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