[Excretion of antibody-coated bacteria in chronic pyelonephritis].

Of 168 urine sediments, which were obtained from 55 patients with chronic pyelonephritis in the course of 3 years when a significant bacteriuria with E. coli was present, we demonstrated antibody-coated bacteria in 81 cases (48.21%).

[Incidence of antibody-coated bacteria in patients with chronic pyelonephritis].

Of 168 urine sediments, which were obtained from 55 patients with chronic pyelonephritis in the course of 3 years when a significant bacteriuria with E. coli was present, we demonstrated antibody-loaded bacteria in 81 cases (48.21%).

[Serum resistance of Escherichia coli and serum bactericidal activity in chronic pyelonephritis].

123 patients with chronic pyelonephritis of the renal dispensary of the clinic of internal medicine of the Department of Medicine Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock were controlled microbiologically for one to four years. Of 59 patients of this group with significant bacteriuria we cultivated 170 strains of E. coli, which were standardised O, K, and H.

[Serum resistance of Escherichia coli in chronic pyelonephritis. 1. Serum resistance in the human serum pool].

123 patients of the kidney department of the Clinic for Inner Medicine of Rostock University suffering from chronic pyelonephritis were taken into microbiological observation for between one and four years. 170 E. coli strains were bred from 59 patients with significant bacteriuria in the course of the disease and their serum resistence was determined with pooled human serum using Taylor's method.

Antibody-coating of bacteria in the urine in relation to various immunologic indexes.

Little is known about the immunologic aspects of antibody coating, though the test for determining antibody-coated bacteria in urine has been examined for its diagnostic uses by many authors after its inauguration in 1974. In adults with chronic pyelonephritis with and without antibody-coated bacteria in the urine, we tested whether bacterial coating is correlated with the homologous O-antibody titre in the urine. We also determined Ig levels in urine and serum, as well as homologous O-antibody titres in serum.

[Urinary and serum o-antibodies in patients with chronic pyelonephritis (author's transl)].

Urine (24-hour-specimen, 100-fold concentrated) and serum samples from adults with chronic pyelonephritis have been investigated for O antibody against the strain isolated from the urine by means of the indirect hemagglutination and indirect immunofluorescence technique. Using the hemagglutination technique about one third of the urine showed the presence of O antibody. The highest titer demonstrated was 1:16.

[Comparative clinical and histological studies in the diagnosis of isolated proteinuria and hematuria].

In 311 patients with clinical suspicion to glomerulonephritis biopsies of the kidneys were performed. In these cases in 82% the histological or tentative diagnosis, respectively, of a glomerulonephritis could be made. As diseases preceding the glomerulonephritis relapsing tonsillitides are occupying the first place, whereas scarlet fever, otitides, furunculoses and sinusitides were observed more infrequently.

[Chemotherapy in pyelonephritis].

In the present paper the most important general directions of the chemotherapy of the acute as well as the chronic pyelonephritis are explained. In adult age actual acute pyelonephritides are rare. In most cases acute attacks of chronic pyelonephritides are in question.