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Disseminated Acanthamoeba Infection in a Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient with CTLA-4 Haploinsufficiency

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dr. Alya Al-Ibraheemi for assisting in providing the pathology specimen images and descriptions and Dr. Tanvi Sharma for providing clinical course details. We would like to acknowledge and honor the patient who was agreeable for his case to be published prior to succumbing to his underlying disease, and to his family for their consent and support of this write up.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, 17666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

    Fatima Al Dhaheri

  2. Department of Dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Nicole Gunasekera

  3. Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Hanna Wardell

  4. Division of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Anastasia Drobysheva

  5. Division of Dermatology, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Sadaf Hussain

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Dr. Al Dhaheri contributed to the write-up of this article as first author. Dr. Gunasekera and Dr. Wardell contributed to the write-up and editing of the article. Dr. Drobysheva provided pathology specimen images and descriptions. Dr. Gunasekera and Dr. Hussain provided dermatologic images and descriptions. Dr. Hussain contributed to the write-up, editing, and overall supervision of the article.

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Al Dhaheri, F., Gunasekera, N., Wardell, H. et al. Disseminated Acanthamoeba Infection in a Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient with CTLA-4 Haploinsufficiency. J Clin Immunol 43, 319–322 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-022-01385-4

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