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Humoral circulatory immune response to Gardnerella vaginalis. |
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| Authors: | M Ghione P A Clerici G Piragine E Magliano |
| 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. |
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