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Many bacteria can cause pyogenic lesions in humans. Most of these bacteria are harmless in most individuals, but they, nevertheless, cause significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The inherited and acquired immunodeficiencies underlying these pyogenic infections differ between bacteria. This short review focuses on two emblematic pyogenic bacteria: pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) and Staphylococcus, both of which are Gram-positive encapsulated bacteria. We will discuss the contribution of human genetic studies to the identification of germline mutations of the TLR and IL-1R pathways.
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I thank my colleagues at the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, my collaborators at the Rockefeller University, Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades and elsewhere, and our patients and families for their assistance. Special thanks to Jean-Laurent Casanova and Stephanie Boisson-Dupuis for their suggestions and to Yelena Nemirovskaya and Cécile Patissier for her assistance. The Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases is supported by grants from National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program (UL1TR001866), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH (P01AI061093), the French Foundation for Medical Research (FRM) (EQU201903007798), French National Research Agency (ANR) under the “Investments for the future” program (ANR-10-IAHU-01) and PNEUMOPID project (ANR 14-CE15-0009–01), the Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory of Excellence (ANR-10-LABX-62-IBEID), the Job Research Foundation, Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique (PHRC), the St. Giles Foundation, the Rockefeller University, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), and Paris Descartes University.
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Boisson, B. The genetic basis of pneumococcal and staphylococcal infections: inborn errors of human TLR and IL-1R immunity. Hum Genet 139, 981–991 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-020-02111-z
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