Studies on Diphtheria in Cleveland, I: Diphtheria-Carriers

Studies on Diphtheria- Tetanus, combined immunization in children in some elementary school of Teheran

Studies on Hypersensitiveness to Diphtheria Bacilli

The paper describes an "immediate" skin reaction to derivatives of the diphtheria bacillus which is shown to be distinct from the "delayed" or "pseudoreaction" commonly seen in Schick tests on adults. The "immediate" reaction was passively transferred to local areas of the skin of other people.

Diphtheria

Gentlemen,?I have occasionally heard a man, about to read a paper upon some subject, commence by expressing his sense of his unfitness for the task he has undertaken. I have, I must confess, looked upon this appeal, ad misericordiam, with much suspicion, believing the writer, did he not in his own heart believe himself particularly well-fitted for the work, would not have undertaken it. To-day,...

Studies of Diphtheria Antitoxin in Rheumatic Fever

The importance of group A hemolytic streptococcal infections in the pathogenesis of rheumatic fever is widely recognized, but little is known of the mechanism by which the streptococcal infection gives rise to the disease. The concept that an antigen-antibody interaction may be involved in the origin of the pathologic processes has received increasing attention, and recent antibody studies (1, ...

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