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SUBMITTER: Xia L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9774035 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xia Lu L Liu Xu-Hui XH Yuan Yuan Y Lowrie Douglas B DB Fan Xiao-Yong XY Li Tao T Hu Zhi-Dong ZD Lu Shui-Hua SH
Frontiers in immunology 20220718
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) arises from a group of rare inherited errors of immunity that result in selective susceptibility of otherwise healthy people to clinical disease caused by low virulence strains of mycobacteria, such as <i>Mycobacterium bovis</i> Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and environmental mycobacteria. Patients have normal resistance to other pathogens and no overt abnormalities in routine immunological and hematological evaluations for primary immunod ...[more]