CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNE-RESPONSES IN PATIENTS WITH RECURRENT ARTHRITIS FOLLOWING RUBELLA IMMUNIZATION
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 7 (2) , 225-230
Abstract
Young adult women (6) with recurrent rubella arthritis after HPV-77 DE/5 rubella immunization were studied. Lymphocyte responses to rubella and mumps antigens and phytohemagglutinin and pokeweek mitogens were measured in these patients and in 20 immunized hospital employees who did not develop arthritis. All 6 arthritic subjects had pre-immunization hemagglutination inhibition titers of < 1:8 and their lymphocyte responses to rubella antigen were significantly elevated when compared with those members of the control group with a similar pre-immunization titer of < 1:8. No significant differences between the 2 groups were found in the other lymphocyte responses.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Prolonged Arthritis in Identical Twins After Rubella ImmunizationAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1979