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SCID: Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) represents a group of rare, sometimes fatal, congenital disorders characterized by little or no immune response ... more about SCID.
SCID: Major failure of the immune system, usually genetic. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of SCID is available below.
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Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) represents a group of rare, sometimes fatal, congenital disorders characterized by little or no immune response. The defining feature of SCID, commonly known as "bubble boy" disease, is a defect in the specialized white blood cells (B- and T-lymphocytes) that defend us from infection by viruses, bacteria and fungi. (Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)
Approximately one in every million people develop SCID, a group of inherited disorders. People with SCID have severe abnormalities in both B and T cell immunity. (Source: excerpt from Primary Immune Deficiency, NIAID Fact Sheet: NIAID)
X-linked or autosomal recessive disorder characterized by defects of both humoral and cell mediated immunity, resulting in low or absent antibody levels, leukopenia, marked susceptibility to infections, and early death.--2004 - (Source - Diseases Database)
A congenital disease affecting T cells that can result from a mutation in any one of several different genes; children with it are susceptible to infectious disease; if untreated it is lethal within the first year or two of life - (Source - WordNet 2.1)
SCID is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that SCID, or a subtype of SCID,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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