Severe Combined Immune Deficiency & Public Health
What is SCID? Severe combined immunodeficiency is a group of genetic disorders characterized by little or no immune response. SCID is sometimes known as "bubble boy" disease. Patients are susceptible to recurrent infections. New treatments can save many SCID patients. From the National Center Biotechnology Information, NIH
A collection of educational resources for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) from the Newborn Screening Translational Research Network (NBSTRN)
CDC information: Newborn Screening: Saving Lives for 50 Years- CDC recently helped put into practice a newborn screening blood test for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID).
CDC information: Addition of severe combined immunodeficiency as a contraindication for administration of rotavirus vaccine. MMWR (2010)
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