Screening for B- and T-cell defects in Egyptian infants and children with suspected primary immunodeficiency

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Hossny, Elham ^a,b   El Awady, Hanaa ^a   El Feky, Mervat ^a   El Owaidy, Rasha ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

B cell; Children; Flow cytometry; Immunoglobulin; Infants; Primary immunodeficiency; Screening; T cell

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANDIDA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN TEST; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADOLESCENT; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGYPT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 66649129008     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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