Studies on the dysentery chrome vaccine

Notes on Forster's Vaccine Treatment of Dysentery

General interest has been aroused in Foster's vaecine treatment of dysentery, which has given such striking results in this Jail, and, under the circumstances, I think the following illustrative cases may be of interest. Already cases have been reported in the Indian Medical Gazette showing the efficacy of the vaccine in old standing and chronic cases. In this jail the treatment has for some ti...

Living Attenuated Oral Polyvalent Dysentery Vaccine

FORMAL, SAMUEL B. (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.), T. H. KENT, H. C. MAY, A. PALMER, AND E. H. LABREC. Protection of monkeys against experimental challenge with a living attenuated oral polyvalent dysentery vaccine. J. Bacteriol. 91:17-22. 1966.-Virulent strains of Shigella flexneri lb, S. flexneri 3, and S. sonnei I were mated with an Hfr strain of Escherichia coli K...

Studies on the Flexner Group of Dysentery Bacilli

1. Volunteers have been immunized with the purified specific antigen of Type V Shigella paradysenteriae (Flexner). The subjects developed a high titer of bacterial agglutinins and mouse-protective antibodies. The agglutinin titer fell moderately after a period of 6 months. The subjects responded fairly well to a small recall dose of the antigen. 2. Two individuals from a group of 10 injected wi...

Vaccine Treatment in the Prevention of Dysentery in Infants

This investigation is very limited and the number of patients treated is few, yet the following conclusions may not be amiss:- 1. The vaccine in no instance did harm, and the reactions in the majority were very mild and of short duration. 2. Cases in which bacteriologically B. dysenteriae were proved to be present, but in a clinically unrecognizable form, were not affected differently from thos...

Studies on Plasma Protein. II. Amœbic Dysentery and Liver Disease