Antidiphtheria antibody responses in patients and carriers of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in the Arkhangelsk Region of Russia

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 627-632

  Danilova, Elena ^a,g   Jenum, Pål A ^b,f   Skogen, Vegard ^c,d   Pilnikov, Valentin F ^e   Sjursen, Haakon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e Hospital of Infectious Diseases   (Russian Federation)

^f Hospital of Asker and Baerum   (Norway)

^g NORTHERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; DIPHTHERIA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION RISK; LARYNX DISORDER; MALE; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; TONSILLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUSSIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745808376     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00026-06     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Anonymous. 1998. Guidance: laboratory diagnosis of diphtheria infection, vol. 4.2.698-98. Head State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.
2. Anonymous. 1986. Order no. 450, p. 39-90. Ministry of Health of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Moscow, Russia.
3. Anonymous. 2003. Resolution 139. Head State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia.
4. Casadevall, A., and L. A. Pirofski. 2000. Host-pathogen interactions: basic concepts of microbial commensalism, colonization, infection, and disease. Infect. Immun. 68:6511-6518.
5. Clarridge, J. E., T. Popovic, and T. Inzana. 1998. Diphtheria and other corynebacterial and coryneform infections, p. 347-371. In L. H. Collier, A. Balows, and M. Sussman (ed.), Topley and Wilson's microbiology and microbial infections, 9th ed., vol. 3. Edward Arnold, London, United Kingdom.
6. Edmunds, W. J., R. G. Pebody, H. Aggerback, S. Baron, G. Berbers, M. A. Conyn-van Spaendonck, H. O. Hallander, R. Olander, P. A. Maple, H. E. Melker, P. Olin, F. Fievret-Groyne, C. Rota, S. Salmaso, A. Tischer, C. von Hunolstein, and E. Miller. 2000. The sero-epidemiology of diphtheria in Western Europe. ESEN Project. European Sero-Epidemiology Network. Epidemiol. Infect. 125:113-125.
7. Efstratiou, A., K. H. Engler, I. K. Mazurova, T. Glushkevich, J. Vuopio-Varkila, and T. Popovic. 2000. Current approaches to the laboratory diagnosis of diphtheria. J. Infect. Dis. 181(Suppl. 1):S138-S145.
8. Efstratiou, A., and R. C. George. 1999. Laboratory guidelines for the diagnosis of infections caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae and C. ulcerans. World Health Organization. Commun. Dis. Public Health 2:250-257.
9. Galazka, A. 1993. Diphtheria, p. 1-12. In The immunological basis for immunization series, module 2. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
10. Ipsen, J., Jr. 1946. Circulating antitoxin at the onset of diphtheria in 425 patients. J. Immunol. 54:325-347.
11. Jenum, P. A., V. Skogen, E. Danilova, A. Eskild, and H. Sjursen. 1995. Immunity to diphtheria in northern Norway and northwestern Russia. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 14:794-798.
12. Kadirova, R., H. U. Kartoglu, and P. M. Strebel. 2000. Clinical characteristics and management of 676 hospitalized diphtheria cases, Kyrgyz Republic, 1995. J. Infect. Dis. 181(Suppl. 1):S110-S115.
13. Logina, I., and M. Donaghy. 1999. Diphtheritic polyneuropathy: a clinical study and comparison with Guillain-Barre syndrome. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 67:433-438.
14. Lumio, J., R. M. Olander, K. Groundstroem, P. Suomalainen, T. Honkanen, and J. Vuopio-Varkila. 2001. Epidemiology of three cases of severe diphtheria in Finnish patients with low antitoxin antibody levels. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 20:705-710.
15. Markina, S. S., N. M. Maksimova, C. R. Vitek, E. Y. Bogatyreva, and A. A. Monisov. 2000. Diphtheria in the Russian Federation in the 1990s. J. Infect. Dis. 181(Suppl. 1):S27-S34.
16. Perles, Z., A. Nir, E. Cohen, A. Bashary, and D. Engelhard. 2000. Atrioventricular block in a toxic child: do not forget diphtheria. Pediatr. Cardiol. 21:282-283.
17. Skogen, V., P. A. Jenum, V. N. Koroleva, E. Danilova, D. S. Halvorsen, N. Maksimova, and H. Sjursen. 1999. Detection of diphtheria antitoxin by four different methods. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. 5:628-633.