“…In recent years, the association between genetic variations in MBL2 , and to a lesser extent FCN2 , and susceptibility to disease have been the subject of various studies 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. An association between MBL2 polymorphisms and clinical outcome has been described in children with recurrent infections22 and in adult patients with meningococcal sepsis 17…”