[The characteristics of the humoral antibacterial immunity of young children with respiratory organ diseases]. / Osobennosti gumoral'nogo antibakterial'nogo immuniteta u detei rannego vozrasta s zabolevaniiami organov dykhaniia.

The state of antibacterial humoral immunity in young children with acute bronchitis, acute obstructive bronchitis and bronchial asthma at the period of exacerbation has been shown with the use of the enzyme immunoassay. The concentration of antibodies to endotoxin positively correlates with the severity of clinical manifestations of the endogenic intoxication of the body. As the inflammatory process in the bronchial tree increases, the spectrum bacterial agents to which elevated concentrations of specific antibodies can be detected becomes wider, and this finds its maximum reflection in bronchial asthma.