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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-6-4
pubmed:abstractText
Patients with cystic fibrosis have a high prevalence of mucoid, alginate-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa that causes chronic infection of the mucosal surface of the lungs. We developed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for determination in serum of immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG antibodies to alginate purified from P. aeruginosa and an ELISA for detection of IgA antibodies to a polyvalent P. aeruginosa standard antigen. Absorption experiments indicated that the assays were antigen and antibody specific and had analytical variations that ranged from 7 to 19%. Serum samples from 207 patients with cystic fibrosis, 100 healthy children, and 94 healthy adults were examined. The patients responded to P. aeruginosa infection with early IgA and IgG antibody responses that were significantly higher than in controls and noncolonized patients. Analysis of paired serum samples showed that infected patients had an increase in specific IgG and IgA antibodies that was significantly higher than in noncolonized patients. The serological data were analyzed for correlation with clinical condition; poor lung function was significantly associated with increased levels of IgA and IgG antibodies to P. aeruginosa alginate and to the standard antigen and with a relative excess of IgA antibodies to the standard antigen compared with IgA antibodies to P. aeruginosa alginate. The assays showed high predictive values if positive, but a negative test did not exclude infection, and the ELISAs should not be used for diagnostic purposes. Mucoid strains were present initially in the sputa of 28 of 54 infected patients with paired serum samples. These patients had a significant increase in anti-alginate antibodies, but it was not different from the increase seen in patients infected only with nonmucoid strains. Therefore, alginate may also be produced in vivo by nonmucoid P. aeruginosa. The study showed that early formation of IgA and IgG antibodies to P. aeruginosa alginate did not prevent development of chronic infection and that P. aeruginosa-specific IgA antibodies correlate with poor lung function.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0095-1137
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
747-55
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Immunoglobulin A and immunoglobulin G antibody responses to alginates from Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients with cystic fibrosis.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Statens Seruminstitut, Copenhagen O, Denmark.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article
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