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8 Main Types of Primary immune Defects

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  • combined defects
  • antibody defects
  • phagocyte defects
  • complement defects
  • well-defined systemic defects
  • immune dysregulation
  • defects of innate immunity
  • auto inflammatory defects
2
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What is a combined defect?

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  • Defect in both T and B cells

- usually with lymphoid stem cells

3
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What is pneumocystis carinii pneumonia a sign of?

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  • Common disease in infants with immunodeficiency / serious T cell defects
4
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What is typical clinical phenotype of severe combined immunodeficiency?

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  • onset in first year of life
  • serious infections: pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, viral + fungal infections
  • failure to thrive [poor growth]
  • diarrhea, skin rashes [thrush]
  • many different causes
  • have very few lymphocytes
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What is X linked SCID?

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  • mutation in x-linked gene for common gamma chain that is used in cytokine receptors
  • in IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, IL-15, IL-21
  • if altered or lacking don’t get any of these cytokines
  • treatment: get bone marrow transplant
  • have no T cells or NK cells, and have B cells that are just not functional
6
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What is effect of adenosine deaminase deficiency?

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  • get no T, B, or BK
7
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What is IL-7Ra chainIL7RA mutation?

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  • get N T and have B and NK deficiency
8
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What is recombinase activating gene [RAG] 1/2?

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  • get no lymphocytes [T or B], do get NK cells
9
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What are TRECS?

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  • T cell receptor excision circles that are created in new T cells as they rearrange their T cell receptor [TCR]
  • still persists in cell and get diluted
  • can test newborn blood for TRECs to see if have T cells [look for SCID]
10
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What is bare lymphocyte syndrome?

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  • deficiency in MHC II
  • still have T cells [unlike in traditional SCID] but have very few CD4 and few gammaglobulins
  • autosomal recessive
11
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What are common antibody defects?

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  • XLA

- Hyper IgM

12
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What is XLA?

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X-linked agammaglobulinemia

  • molecular defect Btk [b cell cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase]
  • BCR activation signal can’t happen

clinical

  • affects males
  • severe infections in first year of life
  • low serum IgG, IgA, IgM, no antibody production
  • tiny tonsils [tonsils normally B cells]
  • normal lymphocyte numbers but few B cells
  • pre-B cells in bone marrow but few mature [plasma cells]
  • get chronic sino-pulmonary infections, respiratory failure

treat: life long gamma globulin therapy

13
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What disease: 3 year old boy, failure to thrive, pneumonia, low IgA/IgG, normal IgM, normal B/T/etc cells

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  • low IgG so think XLA but you see normal B cell quantities
  • possible: CD40L deficiency so B cells never get info to switch
  • basically hyper IgM but without the high IgM
14
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What does AID deficiency cause?

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  • AID = activation induced cytidine deaminase

- deficiency means can’t get class switching of antibodies so have just IgM not IgG/IgA/IgE

15
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What are common neutrophil defects

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  • neutropenia = too few neutrophils
  • defect in function
  • – adhesion
  • – locomotion
  • – killing
  • – abnormal structure
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What is chronic granulomatous disease?

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  • defect causes difficulty reducing oxygen
  • prevent phagocytosis from occuring
  • get granulomata formation: necrotizing granulomas surrounded by neutrophil cell infiltrate, neutrophils come there but can’t digest
  • x linked or autosomal
  • clinical: cervical lymphadenitis, hepatosplenomegaly, eczema
17
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What genes cause chronic granulomatous disease?

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autosomal
- p47phox, p67phox, p22phox
x-linked
- gp91phox

18
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What is wiskott aldrich syndrome

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  • type of well-defined defect
  • x linked recessive disease
  • due to auto-inhibited WASP [ a cytoskeletal protein]
  • Can’t respond to cytokine receptors
  • get small platelets that dont work very well
    clinical
  • petechiae [red dots on skin], eczema, pneumonia, B cell lymphoma,low platelet count, bloody diarrhea
19
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what is job’s syndrome

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  • type of well-defined defect
  • hyper IgE
  • clinical: eczema, skiny boild, pneumonia, lung cyst, cnadida on fingertip, delayed shedding primary teeth
20
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What is stat 3?

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  • imporant in lots of cytokines
  • deficiency is autosomal dominant disease
  • looks like systemic illness
21
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Treatment for severe cellular defect?

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  • stem cell or bone marrow transplant
22
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Treatment for antibody defect?

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  • immune globulin replacement
23
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Cohn-Oncley isolation of IgG

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  • isolate IgG from blood and put intso solution

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24
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Illnesses associated with B cell/complement

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  • otitis media
  • bronchitis
  • bacterial penumonia
  • meningitis
  • cellulitis
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illnesses associated with neutrophils

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  • organ abcesses

- osteomyelitis

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illnesses associated with T cells

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  • thrush
  • lymphopenia
  • herpes zoster
  • mycobacteria infection
27
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Which genes associated with invasive pneumococcla disease

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  • IRAK4
  • MyD88
  • others in toll receptor path
28
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What genes associated with warts

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CXCR4

29
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What genes associated with herpes simplex encephalitis

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  • toll like receptor 3 and pathway members
  • UNC93B
  • TRAF3
30
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What genes associated with chronic candidiasis

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  • dectin 1
  • card9
  • stat1
31
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What genes associated with herpes simplex encephalitis

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  • IL-12
  • IL23
  • IFN-gamma receptor
  • STAT1
    macrophage gp91
  • IRF8
32
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What is effect of IL-2 receptor deficiency?

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IL-2 receptor = common gamma chain

deficiency –> x linked SCID

33
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Most common immunoglobulin deficiency in population

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IgA