COLD AGGLUTININ ANTI-I AND MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE

  • 1 January 1967
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 13  (4) , 405-+
Abstract
Cold agglutinin (anti-I) titers in patients with the chronic cold agglutinin syndrome and in patients with M. pneumoniae infection bear no relationship with growth-inhibiting and complement-fixing antibody titers against this organism. These findings, together with the inability to absorb anti-I agglutinin at 4[degree] with M. pneumoniae antigen, suggest that M. pneumoniae does not contain red cell I antigen.