Word: agammaglobulinemia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painstaking laboratory work wiih gutsy speculations, or "probes," much in ihe manner of a medical Marshall McLuhan. On one occasion, while treating a patient whose inability to resist infection coincided with the growth of a massive thymic tumor, Good began to speculate about the link between the thymus and agammaglobulinemia, a disease caused by a deficiency or lack of the major antibodies. He?together with others in his laboratories?conducted a series of experiments in which he removed the thymus from newborn rabbits. The results of the test?all of the animals failed to develop normal immune systems?...
...Martin Schulkind and Elia Ayoub of the College of Medicine of the University of Florida have used transfer factor to treat effectively chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis, a severe fungal infection of the skin and mucous membranes; others have used it successfully to treat agammaglobulinemia and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a hereditary defect that leaves its victims unable to resist certain infections...
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