Severe Enteropathy and Hypogammaglobulinemia Complicating Refractory Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Disseminated Disease in a Child with IL-12Rβ1 Deficiency (original) (raw)
Abstract
Purpose
Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease is a rare clinical condition characterized by a predisposition to infectious diseases caused by poorly virulent mycobacteria. Other infections such as salmonellosis and candidiasis are also reported. The purpose of this article is to describe a young boy affected with various infectious diseases caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Salmonella sp, Klebsiella pneumonie, Citrobacter sp., and Candida sp, complicated with severe enteropathy and transient hypogammaglobulinemia.
Methods
We reviewed medical records and performed flow cytometry staining for lymphocyte populations, lymphocyte proliferation in response to PHA, and intracellular IFN-γ production in T cell PHA blasts in the patient and a healthy control. Sanger sequencing was used to confirm the genetic variants in the patient and relatives.
Results
Genetic analysis revealed a bi-allelic mutation in IL12RB1 (C291Y) resulting in complete IL-12Rβ1 deficiency. Functional analysis demonstrated the lack of intracellular production of IFN-γ in CD3+ T lymphocytes from the patient in response to rhIL-12p70.
Conclusions
To our knowledge, this is the third patient with MSMD due to IL-12Rβ1 deficiency complicated with enteropathy and hypogammaglobulinemia and the first case of this disease to be described in Colombia.
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Acknowledgments
We thank Yelena Nemirovskaya, Carolyn Álvarez, and Lahouari Amar for their administrative support and Claudia Llerena of the National Institute of Health in Bogotá (Colombia) for her assistance with microbiological analyses. This research was funded by the Colombian Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Colciencias (contract: 111556934990), Colciencias-ECOS NORD (contract: 619-2013), Group of Primary Immunodeficiencies and Fundación Diana García de Olarte para las Inmunodeficiencias Primarias-FIP-(Colombia), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant number 5R01AI089970, the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Sciences of the National Institutes of Health grant number 8UL1TR000043, The Rockefeller University, the St. Giles Foundation, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Paris Descartes University, Laboratoire d’Excellence Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID), and the French National Research Agency (ANR-GENMSMD ANR-16-CE17-0005-01 for JB) under the “Investments for the future” (grand number ANR-10-IAHU-01).
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- Natalia González
Present address: Fundación Universitaria de las Américas, Pereira, Colombia - Andrés Augusto Arias and Carlos M. Perez-Velez, Jacinta Bustamante, and José Luis Franco contributed equally to this work
Authors and Affiliations
- Grupo de Inmunodeficiencias Primarias, Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No, 52-21, Medellín, Colombia
Andrés Augusto Arias, Carlos M. Perez-Velez, Julio César Orrego, Marcela Moncada-Velez, Jessica Lineth Rojas, Catalina Arango-Ferreira, Diana Fernández, Johana Marcela Isaza-Correa, Diego Eduardo Gongóra, Daniel Gonzalez-Loaiza & José Luis Franco - Escuela de Microbiología, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No, 52-21, Medellín, Colombia
Andrés Augusto Arias - Tuberculosis Clinic, Pima County Health Department, Tucson, USA
Carlos M. Perez-Velez - Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
Carlos M. Perez-Velez - Hospital Universitario San Vicente Fundación, Medellin, Colombia
Alejandra Wilches & Catalina Arango-Ferreira - Departamento de Pediatría, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA, Calle 70 No, 52-21, Medellín, Colombia
Alejandra Wilches, Carlos Garcés, Catalina Arango-Ferreira & Juan Esteban Sierra - Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Medellin, Colombia
Andrea Restrepo, Mónica Trujillo & Carlos Garcés - Clínica Universitaria Bolivariana, Medellin, Colombia
Andrea Restrepo - Hospital Infantil Rafael Henao Toro, Manizales, Colombia
Natalia González - Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, INSERM U1163, Necker Hospital for Sick Children, Paris, France
Carmen Oleaga-Quintas, Jean Laurent Casanova & Jacinta Bustamante - Paris Descartes University, Imagine Institute, Paris, France
Carmen Oleaga-Quintas, Jean Laurent Casanova & Jacinta Bustamante - Pediatric Hematology-Immunology Unit, Necker Hospital for Sick Children, AP-HP, Paris, France
Jean Laurent Casanova - Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, USA
Jean Laurent Casanova - St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Jean Laurent Casanova & Jacinta Bustamante - Center for the Study of Primary Immunodeficiencies, Necker Hospital for Sick Children, AP-HP, Paris, France
Jacinta Bustamante
Authors
- Andrés Augusto Arias
- Carlos M. Perez-Velez
- Julio César Orrego
- Marcela Moncada-Velez
- Jessica Lineth Rojas
- Alejandra Wilches
- Andrea Restrepo
- Mónica Trujillo
- Carlos Garcés
- Catalina Arango-Ferreira
- Natalia González
- Carmen Oleaga-Quintas
- Diana Fernández
- Johana Marcela Isaza-Correa
- Diego Eduardo Gongóra
- Daniel Gonzalez-Loaiza
- Juan Esteban Sierra
- Jean Laurent Casanova
- Jacinta Bustamante
- José Luis Franco
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Correspondence toJosé Luis Franco.
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Arias, A.A., Perez-Velez, C.M., Orrego, J.C. et al. Severe Enteropathy and Hypogammaglobulinemia Complicating Refractory Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Disseminated Disease in a Child with IL-12Rβ1 Deficiency.J Clin Immunol 37, 732–738 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-017-0435-1
- Received: 02 November 2016
- Accepted: 16 August 2017
- Published: 01 September 2017
- Issue date: October 2017
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-017-0435-1