Abstract
Opportunistic infections such as candidiasis, BCGitis and pneumocystis pneumonia, point out to combined immunodeficiency as a probable diagnosis
X-linked sever combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is most commonly caused by mutations in IL2RG.
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Bondarenko, A. (2019). A Boy with Burdened Family History, Candidiasis and Diarrhea. In: Rezaei, N. (eds) Pediatric Immunology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21262-9_28
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