Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease: recent discoveries

J Bustamante - Human genetics, 2020 - Springer
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) is caused by inborn errors of IFN-
γ immunity. Affected patients are highly and selectively susceptible to weakly virulent …

Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease: 2014–2018 update

J Rosain, XF Kong… - Immunology and cell …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) is caused by inborn errors of IFN‐
γ immunity. Since 1996, disease‐causing mutations have been found in 11 genes, which …

Inherited IFNAR1 deficiency in otherwise healthy patients with adverse reaction to measles and yellow fever live vaccines

N Hernandez, G Bucciol, L Moens, J Le Pen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - rupress.org
Vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and yellow fever (YF) with live
attenuated viruses can rarely cause life-threatening disease. Severe illness by MMR …

Severe influenza pneumonitis in children with inherited TLR3 deficiency

HK Lim, SXL Huang, J Chen, G Kerner… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - rupress.org
Autosomal recessive IRF7 and IRF9 deficiencies impair type I and III IFN immunity and
underlie severe influenza pneumonitis. We report three unrelated children with influenza A …

Life-threatening influenza pneumonitis in a child with inherited IRF9 deficiency

N Hernandez, I Melki, H Jing, T Habib… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - rupress.org
Life-threatening pulmonary influenza can be caused by inborn errors of type I and III IFN
immunity. We report a 5-yr-old child with severe pulmonary influenza at 2 yr. She is …

Differential roles of interferons in innate responses to mucosal viral infections

FC Walker, PR Sridhar, MT Baldridge - Trends in Immunology, 2021 - cell.com
Interferons (IFNs) are among the first vertebrate immune pathways activated upon viral
infection and are crucial for control of viral replication and dissemination, especially at …

Inherited IFNAR1 deficiency in a child with both critical COVID-19 pneumonia and multisystem inflammatory syndrome

H Abolhassani, N Landegren, P Bastard… - Journal of clinical …, 2022 - Springer
Background Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) and autoantibodies to type I interferons (IFNs)
underlie critical COVID-19 pneumonia in at least 15% of the patients, while the causes of …

Inherited human IFN-γ deficiency underlies mycobacterial disease

G Kerner, J Rosain, A Guérin… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease (MSMD) is characterized by a selective
predisposition to clinical disease caused by the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine and …

Herpes simplex encephalitis in a patient with a distinctive form of inherited IFNAR1 deficiency

P Bastard, J Manry, J Chen, J Rosain… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Inborn errors of TLR3-dependent IFN-α/β–and IFN-λ–mediated immunity in the CNS can
underlie herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) encephalitis (HSE). The respective contributions of …

Genetic lesions of type I interferon signalling in human antiviral immunity

CJA Duncan, RE Randall, S Hambleton - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
The concept that type I interferons (IFN-I) are essential to antiviral immunity derives from
studies on animal models and cell lines. Virtually all pathogenic viruses have evolved …