Chronic granulomatous disease presenting with salmonella brain abscesses.

Pediatr Infect Dis J

From the *Unit of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University-Hospital Pediatric Department; †Unit of Radiology, Bambino Gesù Children Hospital, IRCCS; ‡Department of Public Health and Cellular Biology, Tor Vergata University, Rome; and §Pediatric Immunohematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit and San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (HSR-TIGET), HS Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.

Published: May 2014

Chronic granulomatous disease is a rare primary immunodeficiency caused by phagocytic cell defect. We describe the case of 43-month-old boy with chronic granulomatous disease presenting with Salmonella spp brain abscesses, together with a review of the 13 cases reported in the literature.

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