The English Wikipedia article "Chronic granulomatous disease", consulted for facts cited on Medicine Atlas entities.
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Wikipedia: Chronic granulomatous disease
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Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), also known as Bridges-Good syndrome, chronic granulomatous disorder, and Quie syndrome, is a diverse group of hereditary diseases in which certain cells of the immune system have difficulty forming the reactive oxygen compounds (most importantly the superoxide radical due to defective phagocyte NADPH oxidase) used to kill certain ingested pathogens.
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