Barsukov,A.K., Ivanov,V.G., Ivanov,G.G., Kuznetsov,A.I., Borodina,Zh.I.

Role of sialic acids in the immune response formation in tick-borne encephalitis

Udmurt State University, State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia

The content of individual forms of sialic acids and total sialic acids in the lymphocytes of tick-borne encephalitis patients has been studied. The level of sialic acids has been found to depend on the clinical form of the disease and on the content of specific IgM and IgG to tick-borne encephalitis virus. Similar dependence has been established with respect to total sialic acids in lymphocytes.
Zh. Mikrobiol, (Moscow), 2002, No. 1, P. 76—78