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Severe allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis in an infant with cystic fibrosis and her asthmatic father.
Pediatric pulmonology - 1 Feb 2000
Mussaffi H, Greif J, Kornreich L, Ashkenazi S, Levy Y, Schonfeld T, Blau H
Abstract excerpt
An infant with cystic fibrosis and her asthmatic father were diagnosed as suffering from allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Cystic fibrosis was diagnosed in the infant at 6 weeks of age, and gene mutations were W1282X/G542X. She was diagnosed definitively as suffering from ABPA at age 3.5 years, but had suggestive symptoms from age 11 months. This may be the youngest age described to date for ABPA....
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