Increase in the size of an hepatic amebic abscess treated with metronidazole: value of immunologic surveillance with the ELIFA method
Poirriez, J.; Flament, J.B.; Thoannes, H.; Pinon, J.M.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 47(2): 193-195
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 3306251 Document Number: 290133
The authors report a case of amoebic liver abscess regularly increasing in size for a period of 20 days (iterative controls by echography), in spite of a metronidazole treatment. Immunological studies by the ELIFA method, on the successive sera of the patient, show IgG, IgM, IgE and IgA antibodies within one particular precipitating system; the specific IgA disappeared after surgical drainage of the abscess.