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Effect of recurrent invasive pneumococcal disease on serum anti-pneumolysin IgG titres in HIV infected adults.

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Etuwewe, O. M., Swann, N., Hollingshead, S., Tolmie, Helen, Zijlstra, E. E., Faragher, Brian, French, Neil and Gordon, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6576-1116 (2009) 'Effect of recurrent invasive pneumococcal disease on serum anti-pneumolysin IgG titres in HIV infected adults.'. Vaccine, Vol 27, Issue 29, pp. 3881-3884.

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Abstract

We measured serum anti-pneumolysin IgG concentrations in a prospective cohort of 34 HIV infected adults who developed recurrent pneumococcal bacteraemia, and compared baseline levels with HIV positive and HIV negative control subjects that remained free of pneumococcal disease. Anti-pneumolysin concentrations in HIV positive cases and controls were higher compared to HIV negative controls. There was no significant difference in levels between HIV positive subjects who did and did not Subsequently develop pneumococcal bacteraemia (geometric means 849.1 U/ml vs. 564.6 U/ml, p=0.059). Anti-pneumolysin IgG titres before, and after the recurrent episode of pneumococcal bacteraemia did not differ significantly (p=0.95). High levels of anti-pneumolysin IgG do not predict protection from invasive pneumococcal disease or indicate that an effective immune response has occurred in HIV infected patients. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	HIV infection; Pneumococcal bacteraemia; Pneumolysin
Subjects:	WC Communicable Diseases > Infection. Bacterial Infections > Bacterial Infections > WC 204 Pneumococcal pneumonia. Staphylococcal pneumonia WC Communicable Diseases > Virus Diseases > Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. HIV Infections > WC 503.5 Complications WC Communicable Diseases > Infection. Bacterial Infections > Bacterial Infections > WC 217 Pneumococcal infections WF Respiratory System > WF 140 Diseases of the respiratory system (General)
Faculty: Department:	Groups (2002 - 2012) > Clinical Group
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.04.026
Depositing User:	Users 43 not found.
Date Deposited:	14 Jun 2010 11:27
Last Modified:	17 Jul 2020 10:56
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/264

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