Every primary infection follows the same narrative arc in your blood: IgM rises first, peaks, then declines as B cells class-switch to IgG for long-term memory. Clinicians exploit this arc diagnostically — a patient presenting with only IgG is a recovered veteran of past infection; a patient with IgM is in the middle of the battle. The antibody isotype tells you which chapter of the immune response you're reading.
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