PNEUMOCOCCUS CULTURES IN WHOLE FRESH BLOOD
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Pneumococcus Cultures in Whole Fresh Blood
1. It has been shown that the whole uncoagulated blood of immune animals is not as highly pneumococcidal in vitro, as has been claimed by others. 2. Cultures of pneumococci in the fresh whole blood of immune animals, as compared with cultures in the blood of susceptible animals, show a greatly prolonged latent period, and, in a general way, the relative lengths of the latent periods of the cult...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 1920
ISSN: 1540-9538,0022-1007
DOI: 10.1084/jem.31.3.233