Jorge Neumann
Transplantation Immunology Lab
Santa Casa Hospital
Porto Alegre, Brasil
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, ernest stapleton wrote:
>
> Our laboratory has also evaluated B27 typing by flow and have found
> there is no monospecific antibody to B27 yet. The one lambda clone
> also reacts with most hla B44 positives as well. Other labs have also
> found this cross reaction.
> If any lab does screen for B27 there are other antibodies available
> (they also cross react with B7), namely Serotec and Becton Dickinson.
> I would STRONGLY recommend ANY positives, weak or strong, to be
> confirmed by serology or molecular methods before reporting it as
> such.
> Does One lambda admit to this cross reactivity to B44 yet? It has been
> confirmed by our lab and sylvia wu's lab in british columbia but yet
> to see it in their literature.
>
> Ernest Stapleton
> Clinical Immunology Lab
> St. John's NFLD
>