Primary immunodeficiencies: A 27-year review at a tertiary paediatric hospital in Cape Town, South Africa

Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-105

  Naidoo, Reené ^a,b   Ungerer, Lisa ^b   Cooper, Margaret ^a   Pienaar, Sandra ^a   Eley, Brian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

children; epidemiology; Primary immunodeficiencies; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY; CONSANGUINITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; OSTEITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHAGOCYTE DYSFUNCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPTICEMIA; SOUTH AFRICA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79953882371     PISSN: 02719142     EISSN: 15732592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10875-010-9465-7     Document Type: Article

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