🗓️ Published 7⃣0⃣ years ago today
The Primary Immunodeficiency world's seminal paper
"A hitherto unrecocognized entity with complete absence of gamma globulin"
publications.aap.org/pediatrics/art… #bioinformatics #openscience #scicomm #itrtg #imunology #raredisease @JPediatr @AmerAcadPeds Image
Not the first Primary Immunodeficiency described as many think - the 3rd in fact - but the most impactful. It launched major interest in the study of these rare immune disorders.
Authored by the late Dr / Col Ogden Bruton, a legend in the Primary Immunodeficiency world. Image
One of my personal heroes: The late Dr / Col Ogden Bruton (right).
The immune disorder he IDd bears his name: "Bruton's Agammaglobulinemia."
(photo: circa 1954 at Walter Reed Army Hospital where he practiced as a pediatric immunologist) Image
Dr. Bruton’s discovery set the stage for modern clinical immunology bit.ly/3zbWKJZ

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