Response: Improving classification in CVID

Blood

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 446-447

  Wehr, Claudia ^a   Peter, Hans Hartmut ^a   Warnatz, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 61849185917     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-05-149997     Document Type: Letter

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