Nijmegen breakage syndrome

Nijmegen breakage syndrome is a rare genetic disease presenting at birth with microcephaly, dysmorphic facial features, becoming more noticeable with age, growth delay, and later-onset complications such as malignancies and infections.

Leukemia

A cancer of the blood and bone marrow characterized by an abnormal proliferation of leukocytes.


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PMID (PMCID)
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Atypical strain of Toxoplasma gondii causing fatal reactivation after hematopoietic stem cell transplantion in a patient with an underlying immunological deficiency.
Stajner T, Vasiljevic Z, Vujic D, Markovic M, Ristic G, Micic D, Pasic S, Ivovic V, Ajzenberg D, Djurkovic-Djakovic O.
J Clin Microbiol. 2013;51(8):2686-90.
We report a case of severe disseminated toxoplasmosis that developed early after allogeneic HSCT for T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma in a 15-year-old Toxoplasma gondii-seropositive boy with Nijmegen breakage syndrome, a rare genetic DNA repair disorder associated with immunodeficiency.