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Bacille Calmette-Guérin lymphadenitis and recurrent oral candidiasis in an infant with a new mutation leading to interleukin-12 receptor beta-1 deficiency.
Journal of investigational allergology & clinical immunology - 1 Jan 2011
Aytekin C, Dogu F, Tuygun N, Tanir G, Guloglu D, Boisson-Dupuis S, Bustamante J, Feinberg J, Casanova J L, Ikinciogullari A
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases (MSMD) is a rare syndrome characterized by predisposition to infections caused by weakly virulent mycobacteria, such as those in bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and environmental mycobacteria. Salmonellosis has been reported in almost half of affected patients. Patients are also vulnerable to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Several other infectious...
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