Partial interferon-gamma receptor 1 deficiency in a child with tuberculoid bacillus Calmette-Guérin infection and a sibling with clinical tuberculosis.

Jouanguy, Emmanuelle; Lamhamedi‐Cherradi, Salma; Altare, Frédéric; Fondanèche, M.-C.; Tuerlinckx, David; Blanche, Stéphane; Emile, Jean‐François; Gaillard, Jean‐Louis; D. Schreiber, Robert; Levin, Michael; Fischer, Alain; Hivroz, Claire; Casanova, Jean‐Laurent

doi:10.1172/jci119810

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Partial interferon-gamma receptor 1 deficiency in a child with tuberculoid bacillus Calmette-Guérin infection and a sibling with clinical tuberculosis.

Published in Journal of Clinical Investigation • Dec 1, 1997

Authors:

Emmanuelle Jouanguy

Salma Lamhamedi‐Cherradi

Frédéric Altare

Abstract

Complete interferon-gamma receptor 1 (IFNgammaR1) deficiency has been identified previously as a cause of fatal bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection with lepromatoid granulomas, and of disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection in children who had not been inoculated with BCG. We ...

Subject

Immunology

Tuberculosis

Medicine

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