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J. pediatr. (Rio J.) ; 69(3): 180-5, maio-jun. 1993. tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-148223

ABSTRACT

Com o objetivo de estudar as variacoes da IgA secretoria (IgAs) durante o curso evolutivo da infeccao do trato urinario (ITU), determinaram-se (empregando-se ELISA) a concentracao da IgAs (mg/1) e o seu indice de excrecoes (mg IgAs/g creatinina) na urina de 60 criancas (36 meninos e 24 meninas), de 3 meses a 5 anos de idade. Em todos foi diagnosticada esta infeccao atraves do metodo por dip-slide (Urotube - Roche). Os microrganismos foram isolados e identificados por testes bioquimicos, sendo aE.coli responsavel por 60 por cento das infeccoes, seguida do Proteus mirabilis (27 por cento ), Klebsiella pneumoniae (12 por cento ) e pseudonomas aeruginosa (2 por cento ). Foram estudados quatro grupos de criancas de acordo com o estado nutricional, avaliados pelos percentis do peso e estatura em relacao ao sexoe idade: euforicas (E), com estatura baixa e peso normal (EB), desnutridas moderadas (DM) e graves (DG). As medianas da concentracao e do indice de excrecao da IgAs em cada grupo foram respectivamente: 1.50 e 2.50 (E), 1.10 e 2.89 (EB), 1.20 e 3.25 (DM) e 1.15 e 3.96 (DG). Nao houve diferenca significante quanto aos parametros da IgAs entre os estados nutricionais. Apos a cura, ocorreu significante reducao da IgAs urinaria, o que nao aconteceu com aquelas criancas que permaneceram com a infeccao ou eram recidivistas. Os presentes resultados sugerem que criancas desnutridas sao capases de desenvolver resposta imune local com aumentoda IgAs durante a ITU. E ainda, apos a cura, apresentam reducao significante da IgAs, enquanto aquelas que novamente se infeccionam ou manten a bacteriuria ou a IgAs permanece elevada. No entanto, sao necessarios estudos prospectivos, a longo prazo, identificando os anticorpos locais especificos contra os antigenos do microrganismo infectante, com vistas a avaliar a intensidade e a especificidade da resposta imune local .


Subject(s)
Humans , Infant , Child , Immunoglobulin A/deficiency , Immunoglobulin A/immunology , Escherichia coli Infections/diagnosis , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Infant Nutrition , Proteus mirabilis/isolation & purification , Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 23(3/4): 211-24, 1990. ilus, tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-91739

ABSTRACT

1. A sandwich-type enzyme-linked immunosorbent (ELISA) is described for quantitation of secretory IgA (sIgA) in human serum, as well as an ELISA and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) for measurement of secretory component (SC) is human serum. Samples were reduced and alkylated prior to the measurement of SC. 2. Healthy individuals (N = 53) presented low levels of SC (median, 0.9 mg/l). The protein levels were significantly elevated when compared with the controls, in sera of women during the second (N = 31; median, 1.5 mg/l) and third (N = 35; median, 2.4 mg/l) and acute viral hepatitis (N = 25; median 2.4 mg/l). SC levels of women in the first trimester of pregnancy (N = 24; median, 0.5 mg/l) did not differ from the controls. 3. sIgA levels were also significantly elevated when sera of women in the third trimester of pregnancy (N = 41; median, 25.4 mg/l) and sera of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis (N = 32; median, 75.0 mg/l) or acute viral hepatitis (N = 38; median, 28.5 mg/l) were compared with controls (N = 49; median, 9.0 mg/l). women in the first (N = 25; median, 7.7 mg/l) and second (N = 29; median, 10.2 mg/l trimester of pregnancy did not present levels statistically different from the controls. 4. The results obtained for SC by RIA and ELISA were positively correlated (rs = 0.88; P < 0.001). sIgA levels determined by ELISA were also positively correlated with the results of RIA-SC(rs = 0.77;P<0.001) or ELISA-SC (rs = 0.79; P < 0.001). 5. The assays described are specific, relatively simple to perform, and can be useful for the study of the secretory system


Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Immunoglobulin A, Secretory/analysis , Secretory Component/analysis , Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic/isolation & purification , Hepatitis, Viral, Human/blood , Immunoglobulin A, Secretory/immunology , Immunoglobulin A, Secretory/isolation & purification , Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic/blood , Pregnancy Trimester, First/blood , Pregnancy Trimester, Third/blood , Radioimmunoassay , Secretory Component/isolation & purification
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