Relevant Papers
Warning signs of PIDs in infants
- Severe and/or persistent fungal, viral or bacterial infections
- Adverse reaction to alive vaccine, particularly to BCG
- Persistent diabetes mellitus or other autoimmune/ inflammatory manifestation
- Sepsis-like clinical picture without microbial isolation
- Extensive skin lesions
- Persistent diarrhoea
- Congenital heart defects (mainly conotruncal anomalies)
- Delayed umbilical cord detachment (> 30 days)
- Familial hystory of PID or early deaths due to infection
- Persistente lymphocytopenia, or other cytopenia, or leukocytosis without infection
- Hypocalcemia with or without seizures
- Absence of thymic shadow at X-Ray
Source: proponents: Carneiro-Sampaio, Jacob & Leone. Ped Allergy & Immunol . 2011; 22:345