Open AccessOn the Wassermann reaction in typhus
Author(s) -
I. I. Stepanov-Grigoriev,
I. E. Minkevich
Publication year - 1925
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj80171
Subject(s) - typhus , outbreak , subject (documents) , virology , history , medicine , computer science , library science
After the report of Cathoire, in 1910, about binding of complement by serum of typhus patients at its interaction with extract of spleen of the subject who died of typhus, this question attracted considerable attention. Outbreaks of typhus in the European theater of war in 1914-1916 and its grandiose pandemic in Russia have provided a number of foreign Prussian researchers with extensive material for observation.