title: [Evaluation of usefulness of OWD and OIEP in diagnosis of epidemically occurring infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae].
abstract: Blood serum samples of 3593 persons clinically suspected of infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae were tested. Of these, patients with pneumoniae constituted 66.5%, upper respiratory tract infection--24.0% and with symptoms localized outside the respiratory system--9.5%. These studies were performed by application of complement fixation test (OWD) and immunoelectroprecipitation (OIEP) methods, accepting as a diagnostically significant--titer 1:60 or higher and/or occurrence in OIEP reaction with serum diluted 1:2 or more. Among patients studied prevailed children in the age of 3 to 16 years (61.6%). Mycoplasmosis was detected in these patients in 1071 out of 2236 cases (47.9%). Compatible results in both tests were obtained in 90.6% patients, whereas OWD only in 3.0% and OIEP only in 6.4% cases. Simultaneous application of both tests increased detectability of infections caused by M. pneumoniae by 3% in relation to OIEP and by 6.4% in relation to OWD.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Bakteriologii PZH w Warszawie.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaluzewski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jagielski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zaleska
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D009177:Mycoplasma pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011019:Pneumonia, Mycoplasma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011233:Precipitin Tests
vernacular_title: Ocena przydatności OWD i OIEP w diagnostyce epidemicznie wystepujacych zakazeń wywołanych przez Mycoplasma pneumoniae.