Susceptibility to invasive meningococcal disease: polymorphism of complement system genes and Neisseria meningitidis factor H binding protein.

Bradley DT, Bourke TW, Fairley DJ, Borrow R, Shields MD, Zipfel PF, Hughes AE (2015) Susceptibility to invasive meningococcal disease: polymorphism of complement system genes and Neisseria meningitidis factor H binding protein. PLOS One 10(3), e0120757.

Abstract

Neisseria meningitidis can cause severe infection in humans. Polymorphism of Complement Factor H (CFH) is associated with altered risk of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD). We aimed to find whether polymorphism of other complement genes altered risk and whether variation of N. meningitidis factor H binding protein (fHBP) affected the risk association.

Leibniz-HKI-Authors

Peter F. Zipfel

Identifier

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120757

PMID: 25798599