IMMUNE REACTIONS OF CARRIERS AND NONCARRIERS OF TYPE–SPECIFIC PNEUMOCOCCI. A BACTERIOLOGICAL AND IMMTJNOLOGICAL STUDY OF HOSPITAL CONTACTS12
- 31 August 1940
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 32-Section (2) , 24-37
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a118655
Abstract
The % of pneumococcus carriers and the distribution of types was the same among hospital contacts as among persons in the general population. Carriers had or acquired homologous type-specific antibodies. The pneumococci were apparently acquired just as often from among the carriers themselves as from among the patients. 4 subjects developed atypical pneumonia which apparently had no relation to the pneumococci which were recovered from them.Keywords
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