Zebra Card IM-005: two disseminated neisserial infections

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	History of two episodes of disseminated Neisserial infection
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	complement deficiency
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Erratum in printed version

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[footnote 2] Year of reference should be 1984.

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	"There is a strong genetic component to fatal infectious disease. Adoptees have a fivefold increased risk of fatal infectious disease if a biological parent has died from infection.... Our knowledge of the factors that contribute to this genetic susceptibility is limited." [101] Gonococcemia. [112]

Footnotes in Print Edition

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	(1)	[This footnote was a comment, not a reference.]
	(2)	Complement deficiency states and infection: epidemiology, pathogenesis and consequences of neisserial and other infections in an immune deficiency. Ross SC, Densen P. Medicine (Baltimore) 1984 Sep;63(5):243-73. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	(3)	[This footnote was a comment, not a reference.]
	(4)	Familial properdin deficiency and fatal meningococcemia. Correction of the bactericidal defect by vaccination. Densen P, Weiler JM, et al. N Engl J Med 1987 Apr 9;316(15):922-6. Pubmed Similars
	(-)	C5 deficiency and meningitis in a Swiss family [letter]. Gianella-Borradori A, Borradori L, et al. Arch Intern Med 1988 Mar;148(3):754. Pubmed Similars

New References

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	101.	Genetic influence on cytokine production and fatal meningococcal disease [published erratum appears in Lancet 1997 Mar 1;349(9052):656] [see comments]. Westendorp RG, Langermans JA, et al. Lancet 1997 Jan 18;349(9046):170-3. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	Meningococcal disease
	102.	Bacterial meningitis in the United States in 1995. Active Surveillance Team. Schuchat A, Robinson K, et al. N Engl J Med 1997 Oct 2;337(14):970-6. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	103.	Chronic meningococcal meningitis. An association with C5 deficiency. Rosen MS, Lorber B, et al. Arch Intern Med 1988 Jun;148(6):1441-2. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	104.	Dysfunctional properdin in a Dutch family with meningococcal disease. Sjoholm AG, Kuijper EJ, et al. N Engl J Med 1988 Jul 7;319(1):33-7. Pubmed Similars
	105.	Meningococcemia in a patient with acquired complement deficiency and myeloma [letter]. Schifferli JA, Pascual M, et al. N Engl J Med 1984 Nov 22;311(21):1381-2. Pubmed Similars
	106.	Recurrent bacterial infections associated with C3 nephritic factor and hypocomplementemia. Edwards KM, Alford R, et al. N Engl J Med 1983 May 12;308(19):1138-41. Pubmed Similars
	107.	Prevalence of congenital or acquired complement deficiency in patients with sporadic meningocococcal disease. Ellison RT 3d, Kohler PF, et al. N Engl J Med 1983 Apr 21;308(16):913-6. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	108.	Recurrent meningococcemia associated with IgG2-subclass deficiency [letter]. Bass JL, Nuss R, et al. N Engl J Med 1983 Aug 18;309(7):430. Pubmed Similars
	109.	Acute bacterial meningitis in adults. A review of 493 episodes [see comments]. Durand ML, Calderwood SB, et al. N Engl J Med 1993 Jan 7;328(1):21-8. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	110.	Images in clinical medicine: meningococcal purpura. Barza M. N Engl J Med. 1993;328:34.
	111.	Genetic influence on cytokine production and fatal meningococcal disease [published erratum appears in Lancet 1997 Mar 1;349(9052):656] [see comments]. Westendorp RG, Langermans JA, et al. Lancet 1997 Jan 18;349(9046):170-3. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	Gonococcal disease
	112.	Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 44-1993. A 39-year-old man with fever, polyarthralgia, and purpuric skin lesions. N Engl J Med 1993 Nov 4;329(19):1411-6. Pubmed Similars
	113.	Disseminated gonococcal infection in elderly patients. Geelhoed-Duyvestijn PH, van der Meer JW, et al. Arch Intern Med 1986 Sep;146(9):1739-40. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	114.	Gonococcal infections. Hook EW 3d, Holmes KK. Ann Intern Med 1985 Feb;102(2):229-43. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	115.	Disseminated gonococcal infection. Holmes KK, Counts GW, et al. Ann Intern Med 1971 Jun;74(6):979-93. Pubmed Similars
	Other
	116.	Bacterial meningitis: recent advances in pathophysiology and treatment [see comments]. Tunkel AR, Wispelwey B, et al. Ann Intern Med 1990 Apr 15;112(8):610-23. Pubmed+Abstract Similars
	117.	Complement factor I deficiency with recurrent aseptic meningitis. Bonnin AJ, Zeitz HJ, et al. Arch Intern Med 1993 Jun 14;153(11):1380-3. Pubmed+Abstract Similars

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