Prospective Newborn Screening for SCID in Germany: A First Analysis by the Pediatric Immunology Working Group (API)

• DOI: 10.1007/s10875-023-01450-6
• Publication Date: 2023-02-27T04:16:47Z
• Authors: Carsten Speckmann; Uta Nennstiel; Manfred Hönig; Michael H. Albert; Sujal Ghosh; Catharina Schuetz; Inken Brockow; Friederike Hörster; Tim Niehues; Stephan Ehl; Volker Wahn; Stephan Borte; Kai Lehmberg; Ulrich Baumann; Rita Beier; Renate Krüger; Shahrzad Bakhtiar; Joern-Sven Kuehl; Christian Klemann; Udo Kontny; Ursula Holzer; Andrea Meinhardt; Henner Morbach; Nora Naumann-Bartsch; Tobias Rothoeft; Alexandra Y. Kreins; E. Graham Davies; Dominik T. Schneider; Horst v. Bernuth; Thomas Klingebiel; Georg F. Hoffmann; Ansgar Schulz; Fabian Hauck
• Keywords: Medical microbiology; Clinical immunology

T-cell receptor excision circle (TREC)-based newborn screening (NBS) for severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCID) was introduced in Germany August 2019.