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Monotypic Cold Agglutinins in Infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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ISOLATED cold agglutinins from patients with chronic idiopathic autoimmune haemolytic anaemia are macroglobulins, the majority of which have type-K and the minority type-L light chains1,2. Because they are homogeneous in individual patients with respect to their light chain types they resemble the “paraproteins”.

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FEIZI, T. Monotypic Cold Agglutinins in Infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Nature 215, 540–542 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215540a0

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