[Experience with the use of an immunoglobulin erythrocyte preparation for the early laboratory diagnosis of pseudotuberculosis].

An immunoglobulin erythrocytic preparation for the rapid detection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was developed. The preparation was shown to be specific and sufficiently sensitive (8 x 10(5) microbial cells/ml). The preparation was used for the examination of 102 patients; in 62 of these patients the diagnosis was confirmed by means of common laboratory and clinical methods. Y. pseudotuberculosis antigen was detected in the blood of 39 patients (63%), and in 12 patients (29.4%) the results of traditional laboratory tests were negative. In 19 out of 23 patients the coincidence of the results of bacteriological and seroindication study was registered. During the study of the remaining 40 patients the antigen was detected only in 6 patients, including 3 patients with enteric yersiniosis.