antibody titer levels

[mamaw/two]

I was wondering if anyone knows what the antibody titer levels for chickenpox and pertussis in an immune person are. I had an antibody titer performed on my dd last week. They checked for rubella, pertussis and chickenpox. I am almost positive she has had all of these, but was never diagnosed. Earlier this week the nurse called to see when I was coming in for the results. I asked her to give them to me over the phone, she told me that dd was immune for all three. Before she told me about the pertussis one she asked if dd had a cough, I said no and that she had pertussis two years ago although it was not diagnosed. We talked for about 10 min. and several times I said, "So, she is immune to all three." she said yes everytime. Well, two days later she called me back and said, "I think I gave you some wrong information the other day." She then told me dd is immune to rubella, but not chickenpox or pertussis. I asked why she had asked me if dd had a cough. She said that the dr. looked at the results and dd's levels were high, so this may have been an inducation that dd was coming down with it. I said, " So her antibody levels in her blood were high?" and she said, "No, they were normal." WTF??? I said fine and hung up. I went into dr. office that day and requested my dd's records, however I will not be receiving them for 5-10 working days (I guess it takes a while to photo copy a few pages). I have been trying to google to find out about levels, but maybe I'm not putting in the right words. Anyone know where I can find out about this? I'm also starting to doubt myself, I'm so sure dd had all of these, but dr.'s don't blatantly lie to you, do they?

[mamakay]

No, docs don't lie, but "correlates of immunity" via serology are never quite right, either.
It's just not a hard science like that. Pertussis immunology is the worst. They have no idea what they're doing there. Chickenpox should be pretty straightforward.

[mamaw/two]

Does anyone know of a site where I can find the numbers?