IMMUNOLOGICAL STUDIES IN PNEUMONIA

Immunological Studies in Pneumonia

The serum derived from human cases of pneumonia has been used to sensitize guinea pigs passively. As antigen an autolysate of a pneumococcus culture was employed. By means of Dale's method it has been possible to show with considerable regularity that the blood contains sensitizing antibodies during the course of pneumonia, but none after the crisis. Patients suffering from other diseases have ...

Immunological Studies in Patients with Pneumococcus Type Iii Pneumonia Treated with Sul-fanilamide and Serum.

During the past season (November 1937 to May 1938) we had an opportunity to study the immune reactions of a group of patients with Pneumococcus Type III pneumonia before and during treatment with sulfanilamide and typespecific antipneumococcal rabbit serums used separately or in combination. Observations were also made on the effect of these substances, in zitro, on the bactericidal action of t...

Immunological studies in congenital nephrosis.

Immunological studies in frozen shoulder.

This immunological study of 40 patients with frozen shoulder showed a pretreatment increase in immune complex levels, C-reactive protein, and decreased lymphocyte transformation to phytohemagglutinin and concanavalin A compared to a control group. Repeat estimations after 8 months showed that values tended to approach control levels.

Immunological Studies in Ulcerative Colitis

The incidence and height of antibody titers to colon, assayed by indirect hemagglutination with a heat stable colon extract from germ free rats, is significantly higher in sera from patients with ulcerative colitis than in those from healthy controls or from patients with amebic liver abscess or dysentery. While sera from ulcerative colitis patients and controls are indistinguishable in regard ...