Humoral response to disseminated infection by Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and hairy cell leukemia. NLM AIDSLINE Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1985. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.

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Humoral response to disseminated infection by Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and hairy cell leukemia.

J Infect Dis. 1985 Mar;151(3):523-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/85132900
Winter SM; Bernard EM; Gold JW; Armstrong D

Abstract: Antibody to Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare antigen was measured by immunodiffusion, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and indirect immunofluorescence in sera from 30 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), 10 patients with hairy cell leukemia, and 33 hospitalized and healthy controls. Ten patients with AIDS and three patients with hairy cell leukemia in the study population had disseminated M. avium-M. intracellulare infection. Patients with AIDS and disseminated infection had antimycobacterial antibody levels, demonstrated by ELISA, that did not differ significantly from those in uninfected patients with AIDS or controls. Infected patients with hairy cell leukemia had significantly higher levels of antimycobacterial antibody, demonstrated by ELISA, than did uninfected patients with hairy cell leukemia or controls (P less than .001). One patient with hairy cell leukemia, studied serially, showed a greater than 100-fold rise in antibody titer with the onset of infection. These results further demonstrate that AIDS involves a functional defect in humoral immunity, in addition to impairment of cellular immune function.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*COMPLICATIONS/IMMUNOLOGY Animal Antibodies, Bacterial/*ANALYSIS Comparative Study Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Fluorescent Antibody Technique Human IgG/ANALYSIS IgM/ANALYSIS Immunization Immunodiffusion Leukemia, Hairy Cell/*COMPLICATIONS/IMMUNOLOGY Male Mycobacterium/*IMMUNOLOGY Mycobacterium avium/*IMMUNOLOGY Mycobacterium Infections/*COMPLICATIONS Mycobacterium Infections, Atypical/*COMPLICATIONS/IMMUNOLOGY Mycobacterium, Atypical/*IMMUNOLOGY Rabbits Rats Rats, Inbred Strains JOURNAL ARTICLE

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