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Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease: genetic, immunological, and clinical features of inborn errors of IFN-γ immunity.
Seminars in immunology - 1 Dec 2014
Bustamante Jacinta, Boisson-Dupuis Stéphanie, Abel Laurent, Casanova Jean-Laurent
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) is a rare condition characterized by predisposition to clinical disease caused by weakly virulent mycobacteria, such as BCG vaccines and environmental mycobacteria, in otherwise healthy individuals with no overt abnormalities in routine hematological and immunological tests. MSMD designation does not recapitulate all the clinical features, as patients are...
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