Zumla A
Department of Immunology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1990 Jan-Feb;84(1):162-5. doi: 10.1016/0035-9203(90)90419-f.
Autoantibodies against diverse autoantigens have long been known to exist in the sera of several tropical infections. The introduction of monoclonal antibody technology has allowed immortalization of autoantibody secreting B-lymphocytes and subsequent analysis of these autoantibodies. This paper discusses the current literature on the induction, origins, significance and analysis of autoantibodies.
