Opsonizing and bactericidal effects of normal human serum on nontypable Haemophilus influenzae
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Immunoglobulin A from bronchopulmonary secretions blocks bactericidal and opsonizing effects of antibody to nontypable Haemophilus influenzae.
Patients with chronic bronchitis are colonized by and may develop acute bronchopulmonary infection due to nontypable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) despite the presence of bactericidal and opsonizing antibody to the infecting organism. To test the hypothesis that secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) interferes with host defense mechanisms, we extracted secretory IgA from bronchopulmonary secretions ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.39.1.297-304.1983