physiologic hypogammaglobulinemia
- physiologic hypogammaglobulinemia
- a normal period of hypogammaglobulinemia seen in all infants at about 5–6 months of age as the level of transplacentally acquired maternal immunoglobulins declines before endogenous immunoglobulin synthesis rises to normal levels.
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