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Typhus Fever
Author(s) -
Bailliere,
Tindall
Publication year - 1923
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1923.tb64881.x
Subject(s) - scrub typhus , typhus , virology , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
very misleading. A novel feature of the book is the description of specific serotherapy by the use of the serum of convalescent patients. The results were disappointing, but on the other hand good results are claimed from the use of non-specific horse serum. Protective inoculations by the use of the serum of typhus patients inactivated by heat are described, but the data are hardly sufficient to justify an opinion as to the value of the procedure. <' '4