Monoallelic NLRC4 gain-of-function variants cause an inflammasomopathy with diverse clinical forms including infantile enterocolitis, recurrent macrophage activation syndrome, cold-induced urticaria-like lesions (or familial-cold autoinflammatory syndrome, FCAS4), and painful subcutaneous nodules. Here, we identified a large family with six consecutive generations affected. Genetic analyses detected the heterozygous p.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Given the scarcity of data regarding prevalence of various infectious diseases in Latin-American countries, our study aims to assess the burden of T. cruzi, S. stercoralis, HIV and viral hepatitis in Latin-American migrants, with a focus on Bolivian migrants.
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