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Meningococccal meningitis and complement component 6 deficiency associated with oculocutaneous albinism

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This work was supported in part by the Ankara Paediatric Disease Research Foundation, Ankara, Turkey; and partially by National Institutes of Health grant AR4596 to M.H.B. N.A.G. was supported by the MARC program grant T34 GM08718.

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  1. Division of Paediatric Immunology-Allergy, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Aydan Ikinciogullari, Figen Dogu, Ismail Reisli & Emel Babacan

  2. Division of Molecular Genetics, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Mustafa Tekin

  3. Dr.Sami Ulus Children’s Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

    Gonul Tanir

  4. Department of Paediatrics, University of Arizona, Health Sciences Centre, Tuscon, Arizona, USA

    Zanhua Yi, Nanibaa Garrison & Murray H. Brilliant

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Ikinciogullari, A., Tekin, M., Dogu, F. et al. Meningococccal meningitis and complement component 6 deficiency associated with oculocutaneous albinism. Eur J Pediatr 164, 177–179 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-004-1582-y

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