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Encyclopedia: Immunodeficiency

A number of rare diseases feature a heightened susceptibility to infections from childhood onward. Many of these disorders are hereditary and autosomal recessive.

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How to say "Immunodeficiency" in other languages:

	(German)	Immundefekt
	(Spanish)	Inmunodeficiencia
	(French)	Immunodépression

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SCID

SCID can stand for Severe combined immunodeficiency Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV...

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Opportunistic infection

Opportunistic infections are infections in immunodeficient patients caused by pathogens which are... immunodeficiency diseases such as AIDS, as well as in patients who are on immunosuppressant drugs to... significant illness in immunocompetent individuals, but all can be life-threatening in the immunodeficient...

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1 E-8 m

immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (generally, viruses range in size from 20 nm to 450 nm) 100 nm -- 90% of the...

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Immune deficiency

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Adenosine deaminase deficiency

Adenosine deaminase deficiency , or ADA deficiency, often results in the inherited immunodeficiency syndrome SCID (it has, infact, been identified as the cause of about a quarter of all cases of SCID). ADA deficiency is and inherited deficiency. When one lacks ADA, as is the syndrome, ones immune...

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HIV positive people

HIV positive people are people who have the human immunodeficiency virus. See HIV It is determined by HIV test. They are often discriminated against on the basis of testing positive. In recent years, the rights of HIV positive people have been a major source of debate and controversy. On January...

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Feline immunodeficiency virus

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus that affects domesticated housecats worldwide. FIV is in the same retrovirus family as feline leukemia virus (FeLV). The primary mode of... the immune system of cats, much like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune...

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Simian Immunodeficiency Virus

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JC virus

virus will occur only if the patient is immunodeficient, as in AIDS, or immunosuppressed, as in...

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Reverse transcriptase

kind of enzyme is the reverse transcriptase from the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (PDB 1HMV...

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