Immunoglobulin levels in the Kaiapit and upper Watut areas of New Guinea: with special reference to the tropical splenomegaly syndrome
- 31 December 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 65 (6) , 795-807
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(71)90095-2
Abstract
Serum concentrations of IgA, IgG and IgM were estimated for 2,000 inhabitants of 2 malarious areas of New Guinea—Kaiapit, where spleen rates are high in children but splenomegaly occurs infrequently in adults and is never gross, and the Upper Watut Valley, where the tropical splenomegaly syndrome is particularly common, and 80% of adults and children have palpable spleens.Keywords
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