Early versus delayed diagnosis of SCID: Triumph versus tragedy

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-362

  Nicholas, Sarah ^a   Krance, Robert A ^a   Hanson, I Celine ^a   Chinen, Javier ^a   Mamlok, Robert J ^b   Roifman, Chaim M ^c   Shearer, William T ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUDARABINE;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENGRAFTMENT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA INFECTION; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; T CELL DEPLETION; VIRUS CULTURE; VOMITING;

DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; SEVERE COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY;

EID: 79955961621     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2011.03.010     Document Type: Letter

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