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| CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 2020 | Volume
: 66
| Issue : 2 | Page : 102-104 |
Idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia: A case report
S Umamaheshwari1, MN Sumana2, MS Shetty3, S Gopal1
1 Department of Studies in Microbiology, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
2 Department of Microbiology, JSS Medical College and Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
3 Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, JSS Medical College and Hospital, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, Karnataka, India
Correspondence Address:
S Umamaheshwari
Department of Studies in Microbiology, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka
India
S Gopal
Department of Studies in Microbiology, University of Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_324_19
Idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia (ICL) is a very rare immunodeficiency syndrome with an unexplained depletion of CD4+ T lymphocytes and no evidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Here we report a 29-year-old male patient who had severe ulcerative colitis with low level CD4+ count of 254 cells/mm3, and had no evidence of HIV or Human T cell Lymphotrophic virus type I or II infections. He had recurrent Candidiasis infection and his CD4 count was just 53 cells/mm3 after 3 months. The cause for the decline of CD4 T lymphocytes was unknown.
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