Chronic Granulomatous Disease and McLeod Syndrome in a Black Child
1 State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, The New York Blood Center, New York
A 3-year-old black male child with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease and red cells of the rare McLeod phenotype is presented. The red cells showed acanthocytosis and did not react with anti-KL. Similarly the leukocytes were nonreactive with anti-Kx. The Xk and Xg linkage could not be investigated since all members of his family were Xg (a+).
Submitted on November 21, 1979Accepted on December 26, 1979




