With Primary Immune Deficiency, a part of the immune system is missing or not functioning properly. The immune system is the body's defense mechanism that prevents infections from invading a person's body. Thus, the body is more vulnerable to becoming ill because the immune system is unable to fight off infections. Gammar -P I.V. is pasteurized.
Pasteurization is a viral inactivation process that has been used for more than one hundred years.
It is designed to protect against microbial contamination in many products such as milk. Aventis Behring introduced pasteurization with Gammar -P I.V. in 1995. Unlike other viral inactivation processes, pasteurization is effective in inactivating lipid and certain non-lipid enveloped viruses.