Eculizumab impairs killing of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B in atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome patients vaccinated with MenB-4C.

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Section Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Medical Immunology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Electronic address:

Published: June 2022

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