Two Chronic Granulomatous Disease Diagnosed in Adult Age
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Two Chronic Granulomatous Disease Diagnosed in Adult Age.
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare, inherited primary immunodeficiency that is usually diagnosed at adulthood and is presented with recurrent bacterial and fungal infections. In this case report, two adult cases of CGD have been presented. A 29-year-old woman was referred to our clinic with hypoxic respiratory failure, with a pre-diagnosis of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (TB). He...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Thoracic Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1302-7808,1308-5387
DOI: 10.5578/ttj.30515