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.

Biomedical Research Networking Centre Consortium of Oncology Instituto de Salud Carlos 3 Madrid Spain

BRC Translational Immunology Lab University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom

Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion Leiden University Medical Center Leiden Netherlands

Department of Immunology and Pathology Central Clinical School Monash University Melbourne VIC Australia

Department of Immunology Erasmus MC Rotterdam Netherlands

Department of Medicine Cancer Research Centre Salamanca Spain

Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology 2nd Faculty of Medicine Charles University and University Hospital Motol Prague Czechia

Department of Pediatrics Laboratory for Immunology Leiden University Medical Center Leiden Netherlands

Faculdade de Medicina Instituto de Medicina Molecular Universidade de Lisboa Lisbon Portugal

Immunology Universitario La Paz Madrid Spain

Institute of Clinical Immunology and Allergology St Anne's University Hospital Brno Czechia

Laboratory for Clinical Biology and Hematology University Hospital Ghent Ghent Belgium

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