Age and Infection--A Review

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Abstract
Since the early days of bacteriology it has been the infectious diseases of the young requently studied, little attention being paid to the experimental infection of the old. Clinical observations have shown that parallel with the process of aging there develops an increased resistance to infection. However, the results of experiments with neoplastic infections indicate that the resistance of the older individual does not always result in complete suppression but sometimes in modification, of the infection.It is time now to study systematically experimental infection of the old.

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