SUMMARY Two families with deficiency in the phagocytosis stimulating peptide, tuftsin, are reported. Both cases gave a history of recurrent infections. In the first case, (D. I.) all infection involved only external surfaces. The second patient (W. M.) showed involvement of internal organs with septicimia pneumonia and liver abcess in addition to skin lesions. In both cases, Staphylococcus aureus was the infecting organism.
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