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Primary cell-mediated immunodeficiencies present soon after birth and should be suspected in patients with repeated serious infections requiring hospital admissions or intravenous antibiotics
Any family having unexplained death of infants should seek consult for newborns screening for primary immunodeficiency
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Tipu, H.N., Bainter, W. (2019). Failure to Thrive. In: Rezaei, N. (eds) Pediatric Immunology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21262-9_29
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