Reinfection with relapsing fever. Schubert (Wedge Med., June 1922)

On the basis of both his own observations and the data available in the literature, Schubert (Klin. Med., June 1922) comes to the conclusion that relapsing fever does not give persistent immunity, after which reinfection is sometimes observed in both humans and animals; the latter can proceed with 1.2 or more attacks, and the nature of the primary disease and its duration do not seem to have a noticeable effect on the course of the disease during reinfection. In the opinion of this author, in order to avoid the spread of the disease, it is necessary to withstand recurrent typhoid patients in medical institutions with a normal temperature of 20 days, and any attack that occurs after this period can be considered reinfection.