Para-influenza pneumonia in DiGeorge syndrome two years after thymic epithelial transplantation.

A patient with DiGeorge syndrome developed pneumonia caused by para-influenza virus type 3 two years after immunological reconstitution with foetal thymic eptihelium. There was a transient reduction of mitogen-induced lymphocyte transformation at the time of the pneumonia. Although she recovered from the pneumonia, brochitis persisted and the virus could still be isolated from her pharyngeal secretions 3 1/2 months later.