Experimental Testing of the Immunity of Negroes to Plasmodium vivax

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Abstract
In a study of 131 inoculations in Negro and 529 in white neurosyphilitic patients it was found that Negroes in general exhibited a refractoriness to many domestic and foreign strains of Plasmodium vivax under conditions in which white persons were susceptible. Massive dosages of parasites, given by blood inoculations or by the bites of mosquitoes, failed to overcome the immunity shown by most Negroes. A vivax infection in one Negro was not infective to Negro recipients inoculated therefrom.

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