Physiology of IgA and IgA Deficiency
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Clinical Immunology
- Vol. 21 (5), 303-309
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1012241117984
Abstract
Although secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) is important in mucosal immunity, selective IgA deficiency is the most common primary immunodeficiency of humans. In most cases this defect is not associated...Keywords
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