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Primary pneumococcal peritonitis can be the first presentation of a familial complement factor I deficiency(1)

Primary pneumococcal peritonitis is a rare infection that has been described in women but has not been previously linked with immunodeficiency. The complement system plays a central role in immune defence against Streptococcus pneumoniae and, in order to evade complement attack, pneumococci have evo...

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Autores principales: Ugrinovic, S., Firth, H., Kavanagh, D., Gouliouris, T., Gurugama, P., Baxendale, H., Lachmann, P. J., Kumararatne, D., Gkrania‐Klotsas, E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32640035
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cei.13490