1. Slatter MA, Rao K, Abd Hamid IJ, Nademi Z, Chiesa R, Elfeky R, Pearce MS, Amrolia P, Worth A, Flood T, Abinun M, Hambleton S, Qasim W, Gaspar HB, Cant AJ, Gennery AR, Veys P. Treosulfan and Fludarabine Conditioning for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Children with Primary Immunodeficiency: UK Experience. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2017 Nov 16.

2. Aldenhoven M, van den Broek BTA, Wynn RF, O'Meara A, Veys P, Rovelli A, Jones SA, Parini R, van Hasselt PM, Renard M, Bordon V, de Koning TJ, Boelens JJ. Quality of life of Hurler syndrome patients after successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood Adv. 2017 Nov 7;1(24):2236-2242.

3. Elfeky RA, Furtado-Silva JM, Chiesa R, Rao K, Lucchini G, Amrolia P, Worth A, Gaspar B, Qasim W, Veys P. Umbilical cord blood transplantation without in vivo T-cell depletion for children with MHC class II deficiency. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 Jan 20.

4. Hiwarkar P, Hubank M, Qasim W, Chiesa R, Gilmour KC, Saudemont A, Amrolia PJ, Veys P. Cord blood transplantation recapitulates fetal ontogeny with a distinct molecular signature that supports CD4₊T-cell reconstitution. Blood Adv. 2017 Nov 2;1(24):2206-2216.

5. Samarasinghe S, Veys P, Vora A, Wynn R. Paediatric amendment to adult BSH Guidelines for aplastic anaemia. Br J Haematol. 2017 Dec 28.

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1: Struja T, Kutz A, Fischli S, Meier C, Mueller B, Recher M, Schuetz P. Is Graves' disease a primary immunodeficiency? New immunological perspectives on an endocrine disease. BMC Med. 2017 Sep 25;15(1):174. doi: 10.1186/s12916-017-0939-9. Review. PubMed PMID: 28942732.

2: Lien R, Lin YF, Lai MW, Weng HY, Wu RC, Jaing TH, Huang JL, Tsai SF, Lee WI. Novel Mutations of the Tetratricopeptide Repeat Domain 7A Gene and Phenotype/Genotype Comparison. Front Immunol. 2017 Sep 7;8:1066. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.01066. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28936210; PubMed Central
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4: Wasserman RL. Recombinant human hyaluronidase-facilitated subcutaneous immunoglobulin infusion in primary immunodeficiency diseases. Immunotherapy. 2017 Sep 5. doi: 10.2217/imt-2017-0092. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28871852.

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Reem Elfeky
Clinical research associate. Institute of Child Health, UK

CMC does not represent a specific disease, but rather a phenotypic presentation of a spectrum of Immunologic, Endocrinologic, Autoimmune disorders.
The unifying feature of these heterogeneous disorders is impaired cell-mediated immunity against Candida species.

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Martine PERGENT, Vice President IPOPI, the International Patient Organisation for Primary Immunodeficiencies

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Primary Immunodeficiencies (PID) are a group of genetic disorders caused when the immune system does not work properly. PIDs are life threatening conditions that lead to severe infections and high rate of mortality when not diagnosed and treated properly. Considering the prevalence of those conditions, around 600.000 people in Africa have their lives impacted by these chronic conditions. 99% remain undiagnosed and untreated.

The PID environment in the Africa is challenging and many factors hinder further progress including poor medical and healthcare infrastructure, low diagnosis rate, lack of awareness and medical expertise as well as financial and socio-economical issues. There are not many patients diagnosed and an added difficulty is to identify volunteers to engage into patients organisations.

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