Influence of the Intestinal Flora on the Development of Immune Reactions in Infants
AUTOR(ES)
Lodinova, R.
RESUMO
Breast-fed and artifically fed infants are in contact with the O antigen of Escherichia coli from the first days after birth. From the mother, the infant obtains antibodies against nonpathogenic E. coli strains in low titer, and the infant begins to form its own antibodies during the 2nd month of life. The transition is known to be continuous even though the transferred antibodies could not be differentiated from the infant's own antibodies. Contact with endotoxin caused sensitization which was detected by the skin test at about 2.5 months, and thereafter the skin test data correlated with the presence of serum antibodies against endotoxin. The newborn infant can be colonized with a different E. coli serotype; such an antigenic stimulus evokes the formation of antibodies sooner and at a significantly higher titer than (i) the level of maternal antibodies transferred or (ii) the infant's antibodies normally formed later on against other random E. coli serotypes.
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