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Disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Osteomyelitis in Twin Sisters Related to STAT1 Gene Deficiency.
Pediatric and developmental pathology : the official journal of the Society for Pediatric Pathology and the Paediatric Pathology Society - 1 Jun 2017
Boudjemaa Sabah, Dainese Linda, Héritier Sébastien, Masserot Caroline, Hachemane Samia, Casanova Jean-Laurent, Coulomb Aurore, Bustamante Jacinta
Abstract excerpt
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease is a rare syndrome characterized by severe clinical infections usually caused by weakly virulent mycobacterial species such as Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccines and environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria or more virulent mycobacteria as mycobacterium tuberculosis. Since 1996, 9 genes including 7 autosomal ( STAT1, IFNGR1, IFNGR2, IL12B, IL12RB1, ISG15, and...
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