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Herein, we report the case of a 1-year-and-4-month-old girl who presented with progressively aggravated anemia, fever, and cough. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia was confirmed by bone marrow aspiration and Coombs test. During treatment, the patient experienced two episodes of severe pneumonia and respiratory failure. Next-generation metagenomic sequencing of sputum samples confirmed the presence of cytomegalovirus and <jats:italic>Pneumocystis jirovecii<\/jats:italic> infections. Additionally, lymphocyte subset analysis revealed a T-B+ immunodeficiency. Whole exome and Sanger sequencing revealed a pathogenic recombinase-activating gene 1 mutation (c.2095C&amp;gt;T, p.Arg699Trp) and a likely pathogenic variant (c.2690G&amp;gt;A, p.Arg897Gln), resulting in a missense mutation in the amino acid sequence of the coding protein. Consequently, the patient was diagnosed with a recombination-activating gene 1 mutation and autoimmune hemolytic anemia as the initial presentation. This study reports a case of a recombination-activating gene 1 mutation in China and documents a combination of mutation sites and associated clinical phenotypes that were previously unreported. 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