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Severe chronic neutropenia

Severe chronic neutropenia (SCN) affects the white cells in the blood, but does not affect other blood cells. There are two main types of white cells: neutrophils, which fight bacterial infection and lymphocytes, which fight viral infection. Children with SCN have very few neutrophils in their blood and so are at an increased risk of bacterial infection.

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