PARA‐INFLUENZA PNEUMONIA IN DiGEORGE SYNDROME TWO YEARS AFTER THYMIC EPITHELIAL TRANSPLANTATION

Beard, Lorraine J., Robertson, Evelyn F. and Thong, Y. H. (Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide and Department of Chemical Pathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital Inc.). Para‐influenza pneumonia in DiGeorge syndrome two years after thymic epithelial transplantation. Acta Paediatr Scand 69:403, 1980.—A patient with DiGeorge syndrome developed pneumonia caused by para‐influenza virus type 3 two years after immunological reconstitution with foetal thymic epithelium. There was a transient reduction of mitogen‐induced lymphocyte transformation at the time of the pneumonia. Although she recovered from the pneumonia, bronchitis persisted and the virus could still be isolated from her pharyngeal secretions 3½ months later.