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ANTIBLASTIC IMMUNITY

A R Dochez1, O T Avery

  • 1Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
PubMed
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Antipneumococcus serum inhibits pneumococci multiplication and metabolic functions. This inhibitory power, termed antiblastic immunity, appears in human serum during lobar pneumonia crisis.

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