[The phenotypic characteristics of healthy carriers of the antigenic structures of the influenza A virus]. / Fenotipicheskie osobennosti zdorovykh nositelei antigennykh struktur virusa grippa A.

Highly sensitive methods for the detection of viral antigens with the use of monoclonal or polyclonal enzyme immunoassay test systems, as well as virus-specific nucleic sequences (NS-gene) in polymerase chain reaction, made it possible to establish the fact of long-term asymptomatic virus carriership (AVC) in some of adolescent schoolchildren in a closed group. The occurrence of AVC varied at different phases of the epidemic process. The tendency to AVC was observed in individuals having blood group B (III) and HLA-A9 antigen of the major histocompatibility complex. The development of AVC occurred in the presence of a decreased level of humoral immunity. AVC was mainly registered among individuals, relatively resistant to relapsing clinically pronounced forms of respiratory virus infections.