[Effectiveness of certain immunologic methods in the diagnosis of acute bacterial dysentery]

The effectiveness of some immunological methods for diagnosing dysentery has been compared. This comparison has indicated that such methods as the determination of the presence of specific sensitization in the patients (by the indirect mast cell degranulation test), the detection of circulating complement-fixing antibodies to Shigella (by the complement fixation test) and antigenically reactive lymphocytes (by the lymphocyte agglutination test with the use of the antigen and by the indirect rosette-formation test) are more stable, expressive and sensitive than other serological tests and may be used for the complex clinical and laboratory diagnosis of this disease.