INFLUENCE OF BLOOD-TRANSFUSION ON BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY OF HUMAN-LEUKOCYTES AND SERA AGAINST YERSINIA-ENTEROCOLITICA AND SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM

Authors
MARKOVA N RADOUCHEVA T KUSSOVSKI V DILOVA K SHTARBOVA M PASKALEVA I
Citation
N. Markova et al., INFLUENCE OF BLOOD-TRANSFUSION ON BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY OF HUMAN-LEUKOCYTES AND SERA AGAINST YERSINIA-ENTEROCOLITICA AND SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM, FEMS immunology and medical microbiology, 19(4), 1997, pp. 261-265
Citations number
22
Journal title
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09288244
Volume
19
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
261 - 265
Database
ISI
SICI code
0928-8244(1997)19:4<261:IOBOBA>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Patients undergoing joint surgery and blood transfusion were studied. Serum and leukocyte bactericidal tests in vitro against Salmonella typ himurium and Yersinia enterocolitica were carried out preoperatively a s well as on the 1st, 3rd and 7th days after the operation. The serum complement (C3 and C4) concentrations were determined at the same inte rvals. It was found that after blood transfusion the bactericidic acti vity of sera and the serum C3 complement concentrations were increased . In contrast the killing ability of leukocytes was suppressed. (C) 19 98 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Else vier Science B.V.