Vining Mac, Sharma Nirupma, Guill Margaret
Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, USA.
BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Aug 6;2014:bcr2013201524. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2013-201524.
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder of neutrophil oxidative burst. In patients with CGD, phagocyte destruction of catalase-producing organisms is impaired, resulting in recurrent and potentially fatal infections. Burkholderia cepacia, a catalase-producing organism, is known to infect patients with dysfunctional immune systems. We report a case of a 3-year-old boy with this rare infection that unravelled the diagnosis of CGD.