The clinical utility of measuring IgG subclass immunoglobulins during immunological investigation for suspected primary antibody deficiencies

Lab Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 314-325

  Parker, Antony R ^a   Skold, Markus ^a   Ramsden, David B ^b   Ocejo Vinyals, J Gonzalo ^c   López Hoyos, Marcos ^c   Harding, Stephen ^a  

^a Binding Site Group Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Common variable immunodeficiency; IgG Subclass; Low IgA; Specific antibody deficiency

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; REVACCINATION; REVIEW; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DYSGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY;

COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DYSGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES;

EID: 85044102934     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: 19437730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/labmed/lmx058     Document Type: Review

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