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    Il-12rß1 deficiency in two of fifty children with severe tuberculosis from IRN, MAR, and TUR
    (2011) Boisson-Dupuis S.; Baghdadi J.E; Parvaneh N.; Bousfiha A.; Bustamante J.; Feinberg J.; Samarina A.; Grant A.V.; Janniere L.; Hafidi N.; Hassani A.; Nolan D.; Najib J.; Camcioglu Y.; Hatipoglu N.; Aydogmus C.; Tanir G.; Aytekin C.; Keser M.; Somer A.; Aksu G.; Kutukculer N.; Mansouri D.; Mahdaviani A.; Mamishi S.; Alcais A.; Abel L.; Casanova J.-L.
    Background and Objectives: In the last decade, autosomal recessive IL-12Rß1 deficiency has been diagnosed in four children with severe tuberculosis from three unrelated families from MAR, Spain, and TUR, providing proof-of-principle that tuberculosis in otherwise healthy children may result from single-gene inborn errors of immunity. We aimed to estimate the fraction of children developing severe tuberculosis due to IL-12Rß1 deficiency in areas endemic for tuberculosis and where parental consanguinity is common. Methods and Principal Findings: We searched for IL12RB1 mutations in a series of 50 children from IRN, MAR, and TUR. All children had established severe pulmonary and/or disseminated tuberculosis requiring hospitalization and were otherwise normally resistant to weakly virulent BCG vaccines and environmental mycobacteria. In one child from IRN and another from MAR, homozygosity for loss-of-function IL12RB1 alleles was documented, resulting in complete IL-12Rß1 deficiency. Despite the small sample studied, our findings suggest that IL-12Rß1 deficiency is not a very rare cause of pediatric tuberculosis in these countries, where it should be considered in selected children with severe disease. Significance: This finding may have important medical implications, as recombinant IFN-? is an effective treatment for mycobacterial infections in IL-12Rß1-deficient patients. It also provides additional support for the view that severe tuberculosis in childhood may result from a collection of single-gene inborn errors of immunity. © 2011 Boisson-Dupuis et al.