Pleuritic exudates from patients with lobar pneumonia may be sterile or infected. Sterile fluids, at or about the time of crisis, contain actively acquired antibodies similar to those in the blood serum. Infected fluids do not contain such antibodies, presumably because of the presence in them of large amounts of soluble specific substance. Sterile fluids from patients treated with immune sera have both horse serum and antibodies similar to those injected. Infected fluids from serum-treated cases contain horse serum and such heterologous antibodies as were contained in the therapeutic sera together with homologous soluble specific substance. The concentration of horse serum and antibodies in pneumonic fluids is usually the same or somewhat less than that of the corresponding blood sera.
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February 01 1932
IMMUNOLOGICAL REACTIONS OF PNEUMONIC PLEURAL FLUIDS
Maxwell Finland
Maxwell Finland
From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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Maxwell Finland
From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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August 19 1931
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
Copyright, 1932, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
1932
J Exp Med (1932) 55 (2): 169–179.
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Received:
August 19 1931
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Maxwell Finland; IMMUNOLOGICAL REACTIONS OF PNEUMONIC PLEURAL FLUIDS . J Exp Med 1 February 1932; 55 (2): 169–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.55.2.169
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