title: [Detection and identification of the influenza virus in nasopharyngeal washings by solid-phase radioimmunological analysis].
abstract: In the period of epidemic rise of the morbidity level in 1983-1984, 207 specimens of nasopharyngeal washings from patients with influenza were analysed by solid-phase radioimmunoassay. Test sera containing a wide range of antihemagglutinating antibodies to different drift variants of influenza type A and type B viruses were used as diagnostic ones. The results indicate the predominance of influenza B infection (18.4%). Influenza A accounted for 14.5%, 9.2% of it being subtype H1N1. Noteworthy is a considerable portion (23.2%) of mixed influenza A and B infection. The results of this study are compared with analysis of paired sera from the same patients by the HI test.
mesh_terms: D000956:Antigens, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests; D006801:Humans; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009981:Influenza B virus / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000382:microbiology; D009305:Nasopharynx / Q000382:microbiology*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D000956:Antigens, Viral
vernacular_title: Obnaruzhenie i identifikatsiia virusa grippa v nosoglotochnykh smyvakh metodom tverdofazovogo radioimmunologicheskogo analiza.