The secretory and systemic humoral immune response to polysaccharide A in patients with rheumatism
Briko, N.I.; Shmidt, E.I.; Grushchinskaia, I.A.; Shikhman, A.R.
Vestnik Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk SSSR 6: 37-38
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-3027 PMID: 2773560 Document Number: 333774
The level of sIgA saliva antibodies and Ig(M + G + A) serum antibodies to group polysaccharide A of streptococcus was studied in healthy donors and patients with streptococcal angina and rheumatic fever. It was shown that an elevated level of secretory and serum antibodies to polysaccharide A was registered in patients with angina and rheumatic fever reliably more frequently than in healthy donors. Independence of local and systemic humoral immune response to polysaccharide A was established.