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Infectious diseases in patients with IRAK-4, MyD88, NEMO, or IκBα deficiency.
Clinical microbiology reviews - 1 Jul 2011
Picard Capucine, Casanova Jean-Laurent, Puel Anne
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal recessive IRAK-4 and MyD88 deficiencies predispose affected patients to recurrent invasive pyogenic bacterial infection. Both defects result in the selective impairment of cellular responses to Toll-like receptors (TLRs) other than TLR3 and of cellular responses to most interleukin-1 receptors (IL-1Rs), including IL-1R, IL-18R, and IL-33R. Hypomorphic mutations in the X-linked NEMO gene and hypermorphic...
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