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Diagnostic Criteria and Evaluation of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency in the Neonate.
Pediatric annals - 1 Jul 2015
Diamond Carrie E, Sanchez Matthew J, LaBelle James L
Abstract excerpt
Severe combined immunodeficiency disorders (SCID) are a group of primary immunodeficiencies resulting from any one of a diverse group of mutations impacting T-cell development. SCID is diagnosed and classified through assessment of the lymphocyte subset(s) affected and by the mechanisms responsible for the primary immune defect. Regardless of the genetics involved, patients invariably succumb to an early death...
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