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IgA antibody to PspA of S. pneumoniae and UspA of M. catarrhalis in sputa of adults with chronic obstructive lung disease
| Subject | Time (mo) of study
|
IgA titer
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sputum collection | Colonization | Total (μg/ml) | Specific (ng/ml) | Specific/total (ng/μg) | |
| S. pneumoniae | |||||
| 1 | 5 | 0 | 202 | 284.9 | 1.407 |
| 2 | 20 | 0 | 53 | 83.1 | 1.573 |
| 3 | 12 | 4, 5, 11, 14 | 405 | 22,794.2 | 56.264 |
| M. catarrhalis | |||||
| 1 | 5 | 3, 8 | 202 | 163.2 | 0.806 |
| 2 | 20 | 10 | 53 | 6.7 | 0.127 |
| 3 | 12 | 9 | 405 | 1,899.5 | 468.860 |
