title: Presentation of severe combined immunodeficiency with respiratory syncytial virus and pneumocystis co-infection.
abstract: Severe combined immunodeficiency can cause severe, life-threatening viral, bacterial and fungal infections at an early age. We report a case of a 4-month-old boy with co-infection by respiratory syncytial virus and Pneumocystis jiroveci infection that led to recognition of severe combined immunodeficiency.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Pediatrics and †Department of Immunology, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain; ‡Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain; and §Division of Immune Deficiency, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Nerea
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Pinilla
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Allende-Martínez
authors.forename: María Dolores
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Corral Sánchez
authors.forename: Jaime de Inocencio
authors.initials: Jde I
authors.lastname: Arocena
authors.forename: Luis Ignacio
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: González-Granado
mesh_terms: D060085:Coinfection / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D018357:Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016511:Severe Combined Immunodeficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*