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Deficient Phagocytic Function in Papillon-Lefèvre Syndrome
14 Oct 2009
Abstract excerpt
The function of microphages has been studied in vitro in a 5 year-old girl with Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome. The results showed a weakness in chemotatic activity, a defect of intracellular killing of Staphylococcus aureus, and an almost normal phagocytosis but decreased intracellular killing of Candida albicans by the microphages.
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