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SUBMITTER: Song E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3128843 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Song Eunkyung E Jaishankar Gayatri Bala GB Saleh Hana H Jithpratuck Warit W Sahni Ryan R Krishnaswamy Guha G
Clinical and molecular allergy : CMA 20110531 1
Chronic Granulomatous Disease is the most commonly encountered immunodeficiency involving the phagocyte, and is characterized by repeated infections with bacterial and fungal pathogens, as well as the formation of granulomas in tissue. The disease is the result of a disorder of the NADPH oxidase system, culminating in an inability of the phagocyte to generate superoxide, leading to the defective killing of pathogenic organisms. This can lead to infections with Staphylococcus aureus, Psedomonas s ...[more]