TB Research

<i>IL12RB1</i> Deficiency Appearing in North America: Expanding the Clinical Phenotypes

Chen Wang, Beatriz E. Marciano, Annalie J Harris, Alicia Johnston, Evşen Apaydın Arıkan, Diana K. Bayer, Benjamin D. Solomon, Nathan B Price, et al. (28 authors)

Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2025-11

Abstract

Interleukin-12 receptor β1 (IL-12Rβ1) deficiency is the most common genetic form of Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease globally, often presenting as disseminated Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection. In North America, however, where BCG is not used, it manifests with other bacterial or fungal infections, highlighting distinct, sometimes unrecognized, presentations of IL-12Rβ1 deficiency in this geographic area.

MeSH terms

  • Medicine
  • Phenotype
  • Mendelian inheritance
  • Disease
  • Clinical phenotype
  • Genetics
  • Immunology
  • Bacillus (shape)
  • Genetic predisposition