[Clinico-immunological indices in different forms of dysentery]

A total of 100 patients with acute dysentery and 12 patients with chronic dysentery have been examined. The capacity of lymphocytes for blast transformation and spontaneous rosette-formation has been found to depend on the stage, form and severity of the disease. In patients with low characteristics of the T-system of immunity at the acute stage of the disease slower convalescence is observed. When the clinical signs of the disease disappear, the characteristics of the T-system of immunity approach the normal level, but not quite reach it. In patients with a severe or prolonged course of dysentery the results of the leukocyte migration inhibition test either do not differ from the normal level, or indicate that the stimulation of leucocyte migration occurs.