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Case Report: Talaromyces marneffei Infection in a Chinese Child With a Complex Heterozygous CARD9 Mutation.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Ba Hongjun, Peng Huimin, Cheng Liangping, Lin Yuese, Li Xuandi, He Xiufang, Li Shujuan, Wang Huishen, Qin Youzhen
Abstract excerpt
Talaromyces marneffei (TM) infection is rarely seen in clinical practice, and its pathogenesis may be related to deficiency in antifungal immune function. Human caspase recruitment domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9) is a key molecule in fungal immune surveillance. There have been no previous case reports of TM infection in individuals with CARD9 gene mutations. Herein, we report the case of a 7-month-old Chinese...
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