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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1980 26(3):104-107; doi:10.1093/tropej/26.3.104
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Serum Immunoglobulin Values in White and Black South African Pre-school Children

PART 1: HEALTHY CHILDREN

HERNA ROODE, M.B.Ch.B., M.D.*

National Research Institute for Nutritional Diseases of the South African Medical Research Council, and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pretoria

*(Present address: c/o The South African Embassy, Casella Postale 6204, 00195 Roma, Italia.)

Serum immunoglobulin (Ig) G, A and M levels were measured and compared in healthy white and black pre-school children. A significant difference between the two races was found. Black children generally had higher serum immunoglobulin levels than white children. Apart from the groups as a whole, there were also significant differences between the serum IgG values of the black boys and girls separately in comparison with the levels of white boys and girls.

There was also a significant racial difference in respect of the serum IgA values of the girls and in respect of the serum IgM levels of the boys of the 2 groups. Scrum IgM levels of the white girls were generally higher and differed significantly from those of the white boys.


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