Disseminated gonococcal infection in a Japanese man with complement 7 deficiency with compound heterozygous variants: A case report.
Misaki KageyamaHideharu HagiyaYasutaka UedaKatsuki OhtaniYasuo FukumoriNorimitsu InoueNobutaka WakamiyaNanoka YonedaKeigo KimuraMotonori NagasawaFutoshi NakagamiIsao NishiKen SugimotoHiromi RakugiPublished in: Medicine (2021)
DGI is a rare sexually-transmitted infection that potentially induces systemic complications. Complement immunity usually defeats N. gonorrhoeae and prevents the organism from causing DGI. This case highlighted the importance of suspecting a complement deficiency when a person develops DGI.