Precipitating antibodies in mycoplasma infection.

نویسندگان

  • J Menonna
  • H Chmel
  • M Menegus
  • P Dowling
  • S Cook
چکیده

The effectiveness of counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIEP) for detecting human precipitating antibodies to mcyoplasma antigen was compared with the conventional complement fixation (CF) method in a double-blind experiment. Fifty-one sera from patients suspected of having acute mycoplasma infection were tested by both techniques. Dense precipitin lines to mycoplasma antigen developed in 28 sera with CIEP. Twenty-six of 28 had elevated CF titers to this antigen. No precipitin bands were observed in sera with low antibody titers to mycoplasma. These findings indicate that the CIEP test is a specific method for reliably detecting elevated serum CF antibody levels in patients with acute or recent mycoplasma infection.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of clinical microbiology

دوره 5 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1977