combined immunodeficiency disease

combined immunodeficiency disease
1. see under immunodeficiency. 2. an autosomal recessive disease of Arabian horses; foals lack their own cell-mediated immunity and seem normal only as long as they have passive immunity from the maternal blood acquired in utero. Soon after the age of two months, most die from uncontrollable infections, particularly respiratory.

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