“Screening for severe combined immune deficiency” report was published by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in 2018

In April of 2018, the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has published a report “Screening for severe combined immune deficiency”, which contains recommendation and assessment basis for the national combined immunodeficiency screening program (SCID). Socialtyrelsen recommended the Health care to offer screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) to newborn children by the T-Cell Receptor Excision Circles (TREC) analysis as SCID is a serious hereditary disease characterized by the immune system functioning very badly or not at all.

See report in pdf and full details in Swedish here.

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