PMID: 9162449Mar 1, 1997Paper

Occurrence of antibodies to chlamydial group antigens in the population of the Czech Republic

Epidemiologie, mikrobiologie, imunologie : casopis Spolecnosti pro epidemiologii a mikrobiologii Ceské lékarské spolecnosti J.E. Purkyne
L PospísilM Pejcoch

Abstract

A set of 4,178 human blood sera was tested including 3,093 samples collected from blood donors, 624 randomly collected samples. 124 samples collected from persons possibly exposed to Chlamydia infection, and 337 samples from patients of various hospitals in the districts of Brno, Olomouc and Rumburk. All the sera were examined using the complement fixation microtest and the antigen of Chlamydia psittaci for CFR (Bioveta, Ivanovice na Hané, CzR). Moreover, a subset of samples collected from selected groups (n = 209) was tested by CFR using the genus-specific Ornithose-Antigen (Behring, Germany) (n = 209), another subset of 116 samples by indirect immunofluorescence using the biological Chlamydia trachomatis Spot IF (Bio Merieux) (n = 116), and a subset of 224 samples by ELISA for the demonstration of IgG, IgM and IgA class of antibodies using the kit rELISA Medac. Complement fixing antibodies assayed with the Chlamydia psittaci antigen (Bioveta), reached titres of 1.5, 1:10 and 1:20 in 15.5%, 5.29% and 0.48% of the randomly collected samples, respectively. The corresponding values for the tests carried out with the Ornithose-Antigen were 1:10 in 10.9%, 1:20 in 8.9%, 1:40 in 2.9% and 1:80 in 1.4%. ELISA yielded 52.7%, 26.85% and ...Continue Reading

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