IL-12Rβ1 deficiency in two of fifty children with severe tuberculosis from Iran, Morocco, and Turkey.

In the last decade, autosomal recessive IL-12Rβ1 deficiency has been diagnosed in four children with severe tuberculosis from three unrelated families from Morocco, Spain, and Turkey, providing proof-of-principle that tuberculosis in otherwise healthy children may result from single-gene inborn erro...

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Main Authors: Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis, Jamila El Baghdadi, Nima Parvaneh, Aziz Bousfiha, Jacinta Bustamante, Jacqueline Feinberg, Arina Samarina, Audrey V Grant, Lucile Janniere, Naima El Hafidi, Amal Hassani, Daniel Nolan, Jilali Najib, Yildiz Camcioglu, Nevin Hatipoglu, Cigdem Aydogmus, Gonul Tanir, Caner Aytekin, Melike Keser, Ayper Somer, Guside Aksu, Necil Kutukculer, Davood Mansouri, Alireza Mahdaviani, Setareh Mamishi, Alexandre Alcais, Laurent Abel, Jean-Laurent Casanova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3076373?pdf=render