MENINGOENCEPHALITIS CAUSED BY VARICELLA-ZOSTER VIRUS REACTIVATION IN A CHILD WITH DOMINANT PARTIAL INTERFERON-GAMMA RECEPTOR-1 DEFICIENCY
- 1 March 2011
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Vol. 30 (3), 265-266
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0b013e3181f6f78a
Abstract
We describe a previously symptom-free 13-year-old boy with dominant partial interferon-γ receptor-1 deficiency and unusual varicella-zoster virus reactivation. This case supports the unsettled notion that some interferon-γ R-deficient patients are at enhanced risk for viral disease.Keywords
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