PMID: 11926894Apr 3, 2002Paper

Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae in carriage and disease: a difference in IgA1 protease activity levels

JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association
Srdjan VitovskiJon R Sayers

Abstract

Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strains form part of the normal flora of the human upper respiratory tract but are also implicated in a wide range of diseases. Infections caused by nontypeable H influenzae are major health and socioeconomic burdens. No single bacterial trait has been associated with disease as opposed to colonization. To compare IgA1 protease activity in nontypeable H influenzae strains isolated from patients with symptomatic Haemophilus infection (sputum, cerebrospinal fluid, blood, or normally sterile tissue) vs strains from throat swabs of asymptomatic carriers and to compare iga gene carriage and variability in nontypeable H influenzae strains. Retrospective study of 63 strains (44 clinical and 19 carriage) collected between 1991 and 2000 and maintained at the Public Health Laboratory, Gwynedd General Hospital, Bangor, Wales. Levels of IgA1 protease activity produced by carriage strains and clinical isolates from symptomatic patients; the determination of the size and sequence of a variable region of the iga gene. Bacterial IgA1 protease activity was significantly higher (P<.001) in strains isolated from sputum, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, or normally sterile tissue of symptomatic individuals (median, 15...Continue Reading

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