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Reprogramming of Immune System Cures Child With Often-Fatal Fungal Infection: University of California-Los Angeles
June 10, 2020
LOS ANGELES, California, June 10 -- The University of California issued the following news release:

In the June 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of UCLA physicians and scientists describes the first case of immune modulation being used to cure a severe and often fatal fungal infection. The team "retuned" a 4-year-old's immune system so that it could fight off disseminated coccidioidomycosis.

The case, originally reported by UCLA in . . .

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