Severe Meningococcal Meningitis Revealing a Novel Form of Properdin Deficiency in a Previously Healthy 13-Year-old Child

Affiliations

• ¹ From the Department of General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
• ² Pediatric Hematology-Immunology and Rheumatology Unit, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP, Université Paris Cité.
• ³ Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, INSERM U1163, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital.
• ⁴ Imagine Institute, Paris Cité University, Paris, France.
• ⁵ St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York.
• ⁶ Pediatric Neurology Department.
• ⁷ Department of Pediatric Radiology, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP.
• ⁸ National Reference Center for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.