Novel CARD9 mutation in a patient with chronic invasive dermatophyte infection (tinea profunda)

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Caspase Recruitment Domain Family Member 9 (CARD9) is an adaptor molecule that drives antifungal activity of macrophages and neutrophils in the skin. Autosomal recessive loss-of-function mutations in CARD9 confer increased susceptibility to invasive disease with select fungi in non-immunosuppressed patients. We report on a patient with X-linked ichthyosis complicated by chronic cutaneous invasive dermatophyte...

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