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The distribution of complement-fixing antibody and growth-inhibiting antibody to Mycoplasma hominis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

D. M. Jones  and
P. J. L. Sequeira
D. M. Jones
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory Service, Withington Hospital, Manchester, 20
P. J. L. Sequeira
Affiliation:
Central Serology Laboratory, Manchester, 20
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Sera from 3163 patients were examined for growth-inhibiting and complement-fixing antibody to Mycoplasma hominis. The results were analysed in respect of the age and sex of the patients. Antibodies were found to be uncommon in young people but increased in frequency with age; they were present in old men but were less common in women over sixty-five. Patients attending V.D. clinics and prison inmates had a much higher incidence of antibody than hospital and ante-natal patients. Complement-fixing antibody was approximately three times as common as growth-inhibiting antibody in the sample examined; it was also more common in women than men but the overall incidence of growth-inhibiting antibody was the same in each sex. It was concluded that possibly growth-inhibiting antibody is produced in more severe infections and that it disappears from the serum more quickly than complement-fixing antibody.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 64 , Issue 4 , December 1966 , pp. 441 - 449
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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