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Severe disseminated mycobacterial infection in a boy with a novel mutation leading to IFN-γR2 deficiency.
The Journal of infection - 1 Dec 2012
Kilic Sara Sebnem, van Wengen Annelies, de Paus Roelof A, Celebi Solmaz, Meziane Bouchra, Hafizoglu Demet, van Dissel Jaap T, van de Vosse Esther
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases (MSMD) is a rare syndrome characterized by predisposition to severe, sometimes lethal, disease caused by otherwise poorly virulent mycobacteria. We report here a boy with a recurrent mycobacterial infection from the age of five months. Immunological analyses revealed an inability to respond to IFN-γ, subsequent genetic analyses revealed a novel homozygous...
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