Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with CVID Under Different Schedules of Immunoglobulin Administration: Prospective Multicenter Study [PDF]
We assessed the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in CVID adults receiving different schedules of immunoglobulin replacement therapy (IgRT) by intravenous (IVIG), subcutaneous (SCIG), and facilitated (fSCIG) preparations.
Agostini, Carlo +13 more
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Bilateral extensive CMV retinitis in a sick child – Harbinger of severe combined immunodeficiency
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is a marker of severe cellular immunodeficiency. Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) must be considered in infants presenting with CMV retinitis in a non-HIV setting.
H S Vinayaka +3 more
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Introduction About 20% of the cases of human severe combined immunodeficiency are the result of the child being homozygous for defective genes encoding the enzyme adenosine deaminase.
Hellani Ali +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Reducing Mortality and Morbidity in Children with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency in Switzerland: the Role of Newborn Screening. [PDF]
Soomann M +8 more
europepmc +3 more sources
HIV-1 reverse transcriptase mutations that confer decreased in vitro susceptibility to anti-RT DNA aptamer RT1t49 confer cross resistance to other anti-RT aptamers but not to standard RT inhibitors [PDF]
RNA and DNA aptamers specific for HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) can inhibit reverse transcription in vitro. RNA aptamers have been shown to potently block HIV-1 replication in culture.
Fisher, Timothy S +2 more
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A Novel Homozygous JAK3 Mutation Leading to T-B+NK– SCID in Two Brazilian Patients
We report a novel homozygous JAK3 mutation in two female Brazilian SCID infants from two unrelated kindreds. Patient 1 was referred at 2 months of age due to a family history of immunodeficiency and the appearance of a facial rash.
Lucila A. Barreiros +6 more
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Diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency [PDF]
Early diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is important to enable prompt referral to a supraregional centre for bone marrow transplantation before the occurrence of end organ damage secondary to infective complications. This review outlines clinical, microbiological, and immunopathological clues that aid the diagnosis of SCID and ...
Gennery AR, Cant AJ
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Association Between Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Myocardial Infarction Among People Living With HIV in the United States. [PDF]
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH). Extrahepatic manifestations of HCV, including myocardial infarction (MI), are a topic of active research. MI is classified into types, predominantly
Budoff, Matt +18 more
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Human Inborn Errors of Immunity: 2019 Update of the IUIS Phenotypical Classification. [PDF]
Since 2013, the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) expert committee (EC) on Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEI) has published an updated phenotypic classification of IEI, which accompanies and complements their genotypic classification ...
Ailal, Fatima +18 more
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Peripartum infections and associated maternal mortality in rural Malawi [PDF]
Article approval pendingTo assess associations between maternal mortality and severe morbidity and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, uptake of antiretroviral therapy, obstetric infections, and nonobstetric infections in a rural Malawian ...
Ahmad +23 more
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