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Disseminated Pneumocystis jirovecii Infection with Osteomyelitis in a Patient with CTLA-4 Haploinsufficiency

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We would like to thank Roshini S. Abraham, Ph.D., Lisa Hoyte, N.P., and Sandra Sandoval, M.A., for their invaluable help.

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  1. Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford School of Medicine, 269 Campus Drive, CCSR Suite 3215, Stanford, CA, 94305-5366, USA

    Aminaa E. Siddiqi, Anne Y. Liu, David B. Lewis & Yael Gernez

  2. Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Anne Y. Liu

  3. Department of Pathology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Gregory W. Charville, Christian A. Kunder & Jean Oak

  4. National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Gulbu Uzel

  5. Division of Clinical Biochemistry & Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Amir A. Sadighi Akha

  6. Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Beth Martin

  7. Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, David Grant USAF Medical Center in Travis AFB, Fairfield, CA, USA

    Joshua Sacha

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Siddiqi, A.E., Liu, A.Y., Charville, G.W. et al. Disseminated Pneumocystis jirovecii Infection with Osteomyelitis in a Patient with CTLA-4 Haploinsufficiency. J Clin Immunol 40, 412–414 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-020-00748-z

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