Collector of unexplained cases

Immunologist Mike Recher sees a wide variety of health problems when he consults on rare immune disorders. Finding the cause requires both technology and lateral thinking. The range of symptoms that can occur when one of the cogs (or, perhaps, cogwheels) in the immune system's machinery gets stuck is enormous - from severe psoriasis to frequent infections to chronic diarrhea. Which makes diagnosis difficult. It is only when standard treatments fail to help a patient and the treating doctor has the right instinct, that the patient may be sent to a consultation for rare immune disorders in Basel. Professor Mike Recher from the University of Basel has been collecting special cases for more than 10 years and has now built up a cohort of more than 500 patients that reflects the sheer variety of health problems. Suspicious immune blood count.