Fatal Epstein-Barr virus infection in a case of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis with syntaxin-11 mutation

Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) is a fatal disease of early infancy caused by defective natural killer cell activity and is characterized by fever, organomegaly, pancytopenia, and coagulopathy. Disease-causing mutations have been found in perforin, Munc 13-4 and syntaxin-11...

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Main Authors: Meryem Albayrak, Zühre Kaya, Ebru Yilmaz-Keskin, Udo Zur Stadt, Ulker Koçak, Türkiz Gürsel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health 2009-08-01
Series:The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
Online Access:https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/2318
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