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Humoral circulatory immune response to Gardnerella vaginalis
M Ghione1, P A Clerici, G Piragine
1Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Milan, Italy.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
Strain-specific circulating immunoglobulin G and/or M was detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunofluorescence test by using Formol-treated suspensions of Gardnerella vaginalis from 28 women with overt vaginitis but only three symptom-free subjects among 43 otherwise healthy women found to be colonized by G. vaginalis. Analogous but less stringent strain specificity patterns were elicited by immunization of BALB/c mice.