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C1 SUBCOMPONENTS IN ACUTE PNEUMOCOCCAL OTITIS MEDIA IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Johnson Ulf,
Kamme Carl,
Laurell AnnaBrita,
Nilsson Nils Ingvar
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section c immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0304-1328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1977.tb03604.x
Subject(s) - otitis , medicine , antibody , titer , acute otitis media , immunology , immunoelectrophoresis , surgery
Twenty children with acute pneumococcal otitis media were studied. In 6 children the infection ran a normal course and healed after the first episode and in 14 it relapsed. The serum levels of the immunoglobulins IgG, IgA and IgM were normal in all 20 children. Specific antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharide were found in all cases, with no differences in the titers between the relapsed cases and those that healed. The complement components were quantitated with electroimmuno assay. C1q proved depressed in 60 per cent of the relapsed cases and in 16 per cent of the healed cases. C1r and Gls were disproportionally high compared with the C1q levels. Furthermore, crossed Immunoelectrophoresis revealed abnormal complexes composed of C1r and C1s, and complexes composed of C1r, C1s and CI IA. These complexes were more pronounced in sera from the children with relapsing otitis media.