[Streptococcal group A carriage: new data on the characteristics of the biology of the causative agent and of the immune response of the host]. / Nositel'stvo streptokokka gruppy A: novye dannye po kharakteristike biologii vozbuditelia i immunnogo otveta khoziaina.
Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol
; Suppl 1: 51-5, 1994.
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em Ru
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| ID: mdl-7856351
ABSTRACT
Carriership of group A streptococcus (A-STR) was registered with significantly greater frequency among children of preschool and early school age (29.8%) than among adults (4.0%). Cultures of A-STR isolated from carriers were characterized by their low capacity for secreting erythrogenic toxin of type A (ET-A), lipoteichoic acid and by lower content of surface proteins than those isolated from tonsillitis and scarlet fever patients. Highly hydrophobic strains of A-STR prevailed in long-time carriers and patients. Elevated immunological characteristics for group-specific polysaccharide A and ET-A were more frequently detected in children than in adults, which correlated with frequency of A-STR carriership in these groups and the capacity of the infective agent to produce ET-A. Some specific features in the character of humoral immune response in carriers, manifested mainly by defects of local immunity (a low level of SIgA to polysaccharide A), were established.
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Assunto principal:
Infecções Estreptocócicas
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Streptococcus pyogenes
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Portador Sadio
Limite:
Adult
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
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Europa
Idioma:
Ru
Revista:
Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol
Ano de publicação:
1994
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Article