Natural prevalence of antibody titers to Glucostltransferase of <i>Streptococcus mutans</i> in serum in high and low caries active children

Abstract

In this investigation, serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) and immunoglobulin A (IgA) titers, as well as total immunoglobulin concentration (IgG + IgA + IgM), were found to be raised with the increase in the number of dental caries. Only the total serum antibody titer in high dental caries (HDC) group was found to be significantly raised as compared to no dental carries (NDC) group. Although the IgG and IgA titers were raised in blood with the increased number of caries, the results were not statistically significant. However, we could not find any correlation between serum antibodies and dental caries except that there was an increased trend of serum antibodies to GTF with the increased number of carious lesions.

Keywords

• Antigen
• GTF
• immunoglobulins
• serum
• Streptococcus mutans
• vaccine