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. 2016 May 11;63(1):41–47. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciw160

Table 1.

Patients With GATA2 Deficiency and Severe Primary Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) Infection or EBV-Associated Cancers

Characteristic Severe EBV Infectious Mononucleosis
Chronic Active EBV Disease
Hydroa Vacciniforme–like Lymphoma/HLH
EBV-Positive Smooth Muscle Tumors
Patient 1 Patient 2 Patient 3 Patient 4 Patient 5 Patient 6 Patient 7
Race/sex Hispanic/female White/female White/female White/male Asian/female Hispanic/female Asian/male
Age at onset of EBV disease, y 6 19 23 20 20 41 24
Age at death, y (cause of death) Alive Alive Alive 22 (mycobacterial infection) Alive 46 post-HSCT viral infection; Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and candidemia; respiratory failure Alive
Symptoms Fever, lymphadenopathy, fatigue Fever, fatigue, sore throat, lymphadenopathy, anorexia Fever, fatigue, cervical lymphadenopathy, anorexia, streptococcal pharyngitis Fever, fatigue, night sweats, lymphadenopathy Blistering rash in sun-exposed areas, then fever, diffuse lymphadenopathy, necrotizing lesions in nonexposed areas Fever, fatigue, dyspnea, weight loss Fever, fatigue, anorexia, weight loss
Other infections and cancers HSV stomatitis; MRSA cellulitis HPV; HSV stomatitis; Salmonella enteritis; Neisseria meningiditis sepsis HPV; HSV stomatitis Mycobacterium abscessus Enterococcus faecium bacteremia; Mycobacterium avium complex; histoplasmosis; EBV T-cell lymphoma of lung HPV, M. avium complex, HSV esophagitis; chronic monomyelocytic leukemia HPV, Mycobacterium szulgai, M. avium complex; recurrent bacterial pneumonia
EBV therapy Corticosteroids HSCT HSCT None Corticosteroids, etoposide, alemtuzumab for HLH; HSCT HSCT HSCT
EBV-positive tissues Bone marrow, lymph node No biopsies No biopsies Lymph node, spleen Skin, lung, small and large intestine, skeletal muscle, CSF Orbital tissue, liver, colon, uterus Liver
Peak EBV DNA in blood, copies/mL 44 000 20 600 8900 2770a 6.4 million ND 3350
EBV type 1 ND ND ND 1 1 ND
EBV gene expression in blood Positive for EBNA1 and BZLF1; negative for EBNA2, and LMP1 ND ND ND Negative for EBNA1, BZLF1, EBNA2, and LMP1 BZLF1; negative for EBNA1, EBNA2, and LMP1 ND
IgG, mg/mL 1570b 3150 1940 966b 550b 610b 1090b
Cell count, cells/μL
 Lymphocytes 1796b 280 290 499 170 402 340
 Monocytes 29 0 20 6 30 0 0
 CD3 T cells 1773b 272 289 198 247 396 339
 CD4 T cells 257 182 192 288 49 124 175
 CD8 T cells 964 70 86 277b 192b 234b 145
 B cells (CD20) 2 1 2 1 2 2 1
 NK cells CD3CD16+ 22 8 0 3 12 4 0
GATA2 mutation c.1187G > A R396Q missense c.988C > T R330X (stop) null c.988C > T R330X (stop) null c.1061C > T T354M missense Unialleleic expression; heterozygous for genomic SNPs exon 2bp 55A > C and exon 3 c.15C > G, hemizygous by cDNA sequence c.1192 C > T R398W missense C.1186 C > T R396W missense
Patient No. 14.I.1 [8] 39.I.2 [8] 39.I.1 [8] 19.II.1 [8] Patient 14 [16] 1.II.1 [8, 9] 42.I.1 [8, 14]

Abbreviations: cDNA, complementary DNA; CSF, cerebrospinanal fluid; EBV, Epstein-Barr virus; HLH, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; HPV, human papilloma virus; HSCT, hematopoietic stem cell transplant; HSV, herpes simplex virus; IgG, immunoglobulin G; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; ND, not determined; NK, natural killer; SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms.

a Expressed in EBV DNA copies/106 cells.

b Values within normal range; all other laboratory values in these rows are abnormal.