immune deficiency diseases
- immune deficiency diseases
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Those diseases in which immune reactions are suppressed or reduced. Reasons may include congenital absence of B- and/or T-lymphocytes, or viral killing of helper lymphocytes (see
HIV).
Dictionary of molecular biology.
2004.
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