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Impaired interferon gamma-mediated immunity and susceptibility to mycobacterial infection in childhood.
Pediatric research - 1 Jul 2001
Remus N, Reichenbach J, Picard C, Rietschel C, Wood P, Lammas D, Kumararatne D S, Casanova J L
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian susceptibility to poorly virulent mycobacteria such as bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria is a clinically heterogeneous syndrome. The clinical features of affected children cover a continuous spectrum from disseminated lethal bacillus Calmette-Guerin infection to local recurrent nontuberculous mycobacterial infection. Different types of mutations in four genes...
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