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Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge Professor Anne Puel (Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Hospital for Sick Children, Paris, France) for performing the patient’s anti-cytokine antibody assays.

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  1. Department of Allergy and Immunology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

    Isabelle Bosi

  2. Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia

    Wui-Kwan Wong & Shekeeb Mohammad

  3. Department of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia

    Philip Britton

  4. Department of Allergy and Immunology, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW, Australia

    Peter Hsu

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Isabelle Bosi prepared the first draft of this manuscript and contributed to all subsequent revisions. Wui-Kwan contributed important secondary draft revisions relating to the neurological presentation. Shekeeb Mohammad, Peter Hsu, and Philip Britton contributed equally to editing and supervision. All authors read and approved of the final version.

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Correspondence to Isabelle Bosi.

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Bosi, I., Wong, WK., Mohammad, S. et al. Unusual Manifestations of APECED. J Clin Immunol 44, 33 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-023-01647-9

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