Immunodeficiency 65, susceptibility to viral infections

Immunodeficiency-65 (IMD65) is an autosomal recessive immunologic disorder characterized by onset of recurrent and severe viral infections from early infancy. Affected individuals have impaired ability to fight viral infections, resulting in clinically significant disease, including pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and septic shock. Laboratory studies may show lymphopenia or hypogammaglobulinemia, particularly during infection; more detailed studies show an impaired cellular type I interferon response. Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is beneficial. Important features of this disorder include the rapid development of septic shock, as well as poor outcomes after vaccination with live attenuated vaccines; such vaccines should never be administered to patients with known impaired interferon responses (summary by Hernandez et al., 2018 and Bravo Garcia-Morato et al., 2019). [from OMIM]