High Prevalence of Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibodies in Infants with Food Protein-Induced Proctitis/Proctocolitis: Autoimmunity Involvement?

Table 3

Other antibodies (patient group and control group).

(a)

Patient group	Method	Negative	Weekly positive	Positive	Strongly positive
a-pANCA IgG	IIF	1	3	14	7
a-pANCA IgA	IIF	20	0	3	2
ANCA profile IgG	ELISA	21	2 (2x PR3)	2 (2x ELA)	0
ANA IgG	IIF	24	0	1 (granular)	0
ASCA IgA	IIF	25	0	0	0
a-ENDO IgA	IIF	10	0	0	0
a-ENDO IgG	IIF	10	0	0	0
a-tTg IgA	ELISA	13	0	0	0
a-tTg IgG	ELISA	13	0	0	0

(b)

Control group	Method	Negative	Weekly positive	Positive	Strongly positive
a-pANCA IgG	IIF	18	0	0	0
a-pANCA IgA	IIF	18	0	0	0
ANCA profile IgG	ELISA	18	0	0	0
ANA IgG	IIF	18	0	0	0
ASCA IgA	IIF	18	0	0	0
a-ENDO IgA	IIF	18	0	0	0
a-ENDO IgG	IIF	18	0	0	0
a-tTg IgA	ELISA	18	0	0	0
a-tTg IgG	ELISA	18	0	0	0