1982 Volume 56 Issue 4 Pages 263-271
Serologic responses in patients with Campylobacter enteritis were investigated in order to know the relation to the clinical picture of its enteritis. Serotype of C. jejuni strain isolated from each patient was determined by using the antisera against C. jejuni (kindly given by Dr. H. Nakanishi), and then the antibody titer was measured with agglutination test of the heated C. jejuni isolated from the each patient as the bacterial antigen. Several serologic data were obtained as follows, 1) The antibody appears during the first or the second weeks of illness and is detectable during the ensuing six months. 2) Asymptomatic infection may demonstrated by serologic studies especially in epidemic outbreaks. 3) Several different serotypes of C. jejuni may infect concurrently in one epidemic outbreake. 4) There was not the relationship between the serotype of the etiologic organism and the clinical picture of Campylobacter enteritis.
It is an urgent need to develop a typing scheme for C. jejuni and to obtain the common antigen of them.
