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Low IgA and IgM Is Associated with a Higher Prevalence of Bronchiectasis in Primary Antibody Deficiency

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Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge the medical, nursing and administrative staff of the following centres from which the UKPIN registry collected the data used in this study. University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Hospitals, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Frimley Park & Royal Surrey County NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Liverpool Hospitals NHS Trust, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust. We would also like to thank Mr. Patrick Dubovy for reviewing the statistical analysis.

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  1. Biotest UK Ltd, Birmingham, UK

    John P. Hodkinson

  2. Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Catherine Bangs

  3. Biotest AG, Dreieich, Germany

    Andrea Wartenberg-Demand, Artur Bauhofer & Patrick Langohr

  4. Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK

    Matthew S. Buckland

  5. University College London, London, UK

    David Guzman

  6. Royal Surrey and Frimley Park NHS Foundation Trusts, London, UK

    Patrick F. K. Yong & Sorena Kiani-Alikhan

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Matthew Buckland, Catherine Bangs and David Guzman declare that they have no conflict of interest. John P Hodkinson, Andrea Wartenberg-Demand, Artur Bauhofer and Patrick Langohr are employees of Biotest AG that manufactures IgM and IgA rich immunoglobulins. Patrick Yong and Sorena Kiani-Alikhan were previously on Biotest AG advisory board.

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The original version of this article was revised: The family name of Andrea Wartenberg-Demand was misspelled as Watenberg-Demand.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10875-017-0392-8.

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Hodkinson, J.P., Bangs, C., Wartenberg-Demand, A. et al. Low IgA and IgM Is Associated with a Higher Prevalence of Bronchiectasis in Primary Antibody Deficiency. J Clin Immunol 37, 329–331 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10875-017-0381-y

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