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Antepartum Transmission of Lymphogranuloma Venereum Antibodies and Their Duration in the Infant¹

From the Harlem Hospital, Department of Hospitals, New York, New York

Abstract

Fifteen, or four and two-tenths percent, of two hundred and eighty antepartum women without signs or symptoms of lymphogranuloma venereum gave positive Frei reactions as well as complement fixation for lymphogranuloma venereum. The infants of ten positive Frei reactors were studied for complement fixation in their first week of life and again after 8 to 14 weeks. Correspondence between the titer of the complement fixation of the sera of mother and infant was found during the first week of life. After 8 to 14 weeks the infant's sera became negative. Only the antibodies for lymphogranuloma venereum were temporarily present in the infants of mothers with asymptomatic lymphogranuloma venereum.

Footnotes

¹ These studies received financial support from the Littauer Pneumonia Research Fund of New York University College of Medicine.