Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) in Canadian Children: A National Surveillance Study

• Published in: Journal of Clinical Immunology
• Main Authors: Rozmus, Jacob, Junker, Anne, Thibodeau, Melanie Laffin, Grenier, Danielle, Turvey, Stuart E., Yacoub, Wadieh, Embree, Joanne, Haddad, Elie, Langley, Joanne M., Ramsingh, Rose Marie, Singh, Veeran-Anne, Long, Richard, Schultz, Kirk R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer US 2013
• Subjects: Original Research; Calmette; Canada; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7102302/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24122030; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-013-9952-8

PURPOSE: Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) is universally fatal unless treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Following the identification of disseminated Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infections in Canadian First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) children with unrecognize...