IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE WITH STREPTOCOCCIC ANTIGENS IN CHRONIC RHEUMATIC MYOCARDITIS
Abstract
In an earlier study it was found that the deposits of gamma-globulin marked on amputated auricles of patients commissurotomized by pure mitralic stenosis, if cemented with fluorescent antistreptolysin sera, reacted immunologically with the latter, thus revealing an antigenic nature of the streptolysinic type. In this study an attempt was made to find out whether the same deposits of gamma-globulin, made to react with streptococcic antigens which had been rendered fluorescent, would reveal an interaction with the same, in this case evidencing also an antibody nature. In 14 out of 26 patients studied it was found that this reaction did indeed occur
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 22, 1962
- Accession Number
- AD0834618
Entities
People
- G. Vacca
- P. F. Angelino
Organizations
- United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories