A young girl with severe cerebral fungal infection due to card 9 deficiency

作者：Cetinkaya Pinar Gur^*; Ayvaz Deniz Cagdas; Karaatmaca Betul; Gocmen Rahsan; Soylemezoglu Figen; Bainter Wayne; Chou Janet; Chatila Talal A; Tezcan Ilhan

来源：Clinical Immunology, 2018, 191: 21-26.

DOI：10.1016/j.clim.2018.01.002

• CARD9 deficiency
• NLRP12
• Fungal infection
• Central nervous system infection

Pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), receptors of the innate immune system, are important in interaction with pathogens. Caspase Recruitment Domain-containing protein 9 (CARD9), a member of PRRs, is an intracellular adaptor protein important in fungal defense. CARD9 deficiency causes a rare primary immunodeficiency (PID) characterized by superficial and deep fungal infections. We report a 17 year-old female with a homozygous nonsense mutation in CARD9, who presented with severe cerebral fungal infection of the central nervous system. She was also found to have an heterozygous NLRP12 mutation, which may have had add-on effect on the severity of the infection.

• 出版日期2018-6