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A 38-year-old woman with necrotising cervical lymphadenitis due to Histoplasma capsulatum.

Esther van de VosseAnnelies van WengenWendy F van der MeideLeo G VisserJaap T van Dissel
Published in: Infection (2017)
IFN-γ autoantibodies leading to infections were so far mainly detected in people from Asian descent, where it was found to be associated with certain HLA types. This may be the first patient of African descent, and without the typical HLA types that predispose to this problem, that produces IFN-γ autoantibodies.
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