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Immune System and Disorders |
Chronic Granulomatous Disease; SCID; Severe Combined Immunodeficiency |
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, or SCID, is a genetic disorder in which both "arms" (B cells and T cells) of the adaptive immune system are crippled, due to a defect in one of several possible genes. SCID is a severe form of heritable immunodeficiency. It is also known as the "bubble boy" disease because its victims are extremely vulnerable to infectious diseases and must live (if untreated) in a completely sterile environment. The most famous case is the boy David Vetter. SCID affects ab ...
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Immune System and Disorders Organizations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases http://www.cancer.gov/
- National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Drug Abuse http://www.nida.nih.gov/
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences http://www.nigms.nih.gov/
- American College of Physicians http://www.acponline.org/
- National Library of Medicine
- National Marrow Donor Program http://www.marrow.org/
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology
- Jeffrey Modell Foundation
- Office of Medical Applications of Research http://odp.od.nih.gov/omar/
- National Library Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
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