[Antibodies to mycobacterial antigens in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].
The levels of IgG and IgM antibodies to different mycobacterial antigens were studied in patients with varying pulmonary tuberculosis. The higher levels of IgG and IgM to the used antibodies were simultaneously found in patients with infiltrative tuberculosis as compared with healthy individuals. As compared to patients with fibrocavernous pulmonary tuberculosis, those with infiltrative tuberculosis had significantly lower levels of IgG antibodies to BGC sonicate and protein with a molecular weight of 40-70 kD isolated from the strain H37Rv. A correlation was found between the IgM antibodies to protein isolated from the strain H37RV and to H37RV sonicate and the degree of the activity unique to fibrocavernous pulmonary tuberculosis.
Autenshlius
A I
AI
Shkunov
A N
AN
Tumanov
Iu V
IuV
Kuznetsova
N B
NB
Mikhaĭlova
E S
ES
Sedova
Iu V
IuV
Ogirenko
A P
AP
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology*; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000276:immunology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000276:immunology*
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M