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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2019

The EuroFlow PID Orientation Tube for Flow Cytometric Diagnostic Screening of Primary Immunodeficiencies of the Lymphoid System.

Mirjam van der Burg, Tomas Kalina, Martin Perez-Andres, Marcela Vlkova, Eduardo Lopez-Granados, Elena Blanco, Carolien Bonroy, Ana E Sousa, Anne-Kathrin Kienzler, Marjolein Wentink and 6 more

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54 citing papers in PubMed, 91 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 14 institutions in 7 countries.

Mirjam van der BurgDepartment of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Tomas KalinaDepartment of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czechia.
Martin Perez-AndresDepartment of Medicine, Cancer Research Centre (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Cytometry Service (NUCLEUS), University of Salamanca (USAL), Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain.
Marcela VlkovaInstitute of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, St Anne's University Hospital, Brno, Czechia.
Eduardo Lopez-GranadosImmunology, Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain.
Elena BlancoDepartment of Medicine, Cancer Research Centre (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Cytometry Service (NUCLEUS), University of Salamanca (USAL), Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain.
Carolien BonroyLaboratory for Clinical Biology and Hematology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Ana E SousaFaculdade de Medicina, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Anne-Kathrin KienzlerBRC-Translational Immunology Lab, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Marjolein WentinkDepartment of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Ester MejstríkováDepartment of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czechia.
Vendula ŠinkorovaDepartment of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czechia.
Jan StuchlyDepartment of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and University Hospital Motol, Prague, Czechia.
Menno C van ZelmDepartment of Immunology and Pathology, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Alberto OrfaoDepartment of Medicine, Cancer Research Centre (IBMCC, USAL-CSIC), Cytometry Service (NUCLEUS), University of Salamanca (USAL), Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain.
Jacques J M van DongenDepartment of Immunology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Charles University · CZUniversity Hospital in Motol · CZCentro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Cáncer · ESErasmus MC · NLErasmus University Rotterdam · NLGhent University Hospital · BEHospital Universitario La Paz · ESInstituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca · ESInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ESLeiden University Medical Center · NLMonash University · AUSt. Anne's University Hospital Brno · CZUniversity of Lisbon · PTUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the rapidly evolving field of primary immunodeficiencies (PID), the EuroFlow consortium decided to develop a PID orientation and screening tube that facilitates fast, standardized, and validated immunophenotypic diagnosis of lymphoid PID, and allows full exchange of data between centers. Our aim was to develop a tool that would be universal for all lymphoid PIDs and offer high sensitivity to identify a lymphoid PID (without a need for specificity to diagnose particular PID) and to guide and prioritize further diagnostic modalities and clinical management. The tube composition has been defined in a stepwise manner through several cycles of design-testing-evaluation-redesign in a multicenter setting. Equally important appeared to be the standardized pre-analytical procedures (sample preparation and instrument setup), analytical procedures (immunostaining and data acquisition), the software analysis (a multidimensional view based on a reference database in Infinicyt software), and data interpretation. This standardized EuroFlow concept has been tested on 250 healthy controls and 99 PID patients with defined genetic defects. In addition, an application of new EuroFlow software tools with multidimensional pattern recognition was designed with inclusion of maturation pathways in multidimensional patterns (APS plots). The major advantage of the EuroFlow approach is that data can be fully exchanged between different laboratories in any country of the world, which is especially of interest for the PID field, with generally low numbers of cases per center.

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AdolescentAdultAgedCase-Control StudiesChildChild, PreschoolFemaleFlow CytometryHumansImmune SystemImmunophenotypingInfantMaleMiddle AgedPrimary Immunodeficiency DiseasesReference Standardsautomated gating strategyEuroFlowflow cytometric immunophenotypingprimary immunodeficienciesstandardization

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PMID30886612
PMCPMC6410673
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