title: [Increase in the size of an hepatic amebic abscess treated with metronidazole: value of immunologic surveillance with the ELIFA method].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Poirriez
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Flament
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thoannes
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pinon
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008795:Metronidazole / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D008795:Metronidazole
vernacular_title: Augmentation de volume d'un abcès amibien hépatique traité par le métronidazole: intérêt de la surveillance immunologique par la méthode ELIFA.