Cell-free and cell-bound antibody in nasal secretions from infants with respiratory syncytial virus infection.

AUTOR(ES)

McIntosh, K

RESUMO

Twenty-two infants under 9 months of age hospitalized with bronchiolitis or pneumonia due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) were serially sampled to determine the pattern of secretory antibody response. Using double labeling techniques, we found several types of immunoglobulin in secretions: cell-free antibody to RSV of the immunoglobulin A (IgA), immunoglobulin G (IgG), and immunoglobulin M (IgM) classes; and immunoglobulins of all three classes bound to RSV-infected cells shed from the nasal epithelium (presumably cell-bound antibody to RSV). IgA attached to RSV-infected epithelial cells was almost always detected in the first available nasal sample (day 1 or 2 of hospitalization). In contrast, cell-free anti-RSV IgA first appeared an average of 3.5 days later at a time when virus antigen was disappearing from the secretion. IgG and IgM attached to RSV-infected cells appeared more irregularly. The titer of cell-free anti-RSV IgM was often higher than that of IgA early in the illness and declined as the infection resolved. Cell-free anti-RSV IgG was usually present earlier than IgA and rose during convalescence.

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