Overinterpretation and Overtreatment of Low-Titer Antibodies Against Contactin-Associated Protein-2
Antibodies (abs) against neural or glial antigens have become important diagnostic markers of autoimmune encephalitides. A key requirement for interpretation of any test in clinical medicine is specificity. In this work, a 35-year-old female patient with low-titer contactin-associated protein-2 abs...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Immunology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fimmu.2018.00703/full |