What is Primary Immunodeficiency?
Antibiotics are important medicines for managing and treating infections caused by bacteria. This information is for primary immunodeficiency patients and their carers aims to help ensure antibiotics are used safely and effectively. What are antibiotics? Antibiotics are medicines used to treat infections caused by bacteria, one of the important families of bugs that cause illness….
Great advances made in the last ten years mean that the use of gene therapy to treat and cure primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) is a reality. What is gene therapy? Gene therapy is a ‘mini gene transplant’. Doctors remove stem cells from the patient with a PID, replace the defective genes inside the cells with new,…
Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is a cure for many primary immunodeficiency (PID) conditions. In the last 20 years there have been huge advances in success and survival rates and in the range of conditions that can be treated by BMT. What is bone marrow? Bone marrow is the soft, spongy tissue found in the centre of bones. It…
