| bacille calmette-guérin infection and disease with fatal outcome associated with a point mutation in the interleukin-12/interleukin-23 receptor beta-1 chain in two mexican families. | patients with mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases (msmd) mainly suffer from mycobacterium and salmonella infections, which are due to mutations in genes controlling the interleukin (il)-12/il-23-dependent ifn-γ production. we performed a molecular diagnosis in two mexican patients with persistent mycobacterial infections. patients 1 (p1) and 2 (p2) from two unrelated, non-consanguineous families from two villages near mexico city developed bacille calmette-guérin (bcg) disease sec ... | 2010 | 20171917 |