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Supersensitization to Alien Serum1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Albert S. Grünbaum
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(From the Pathological Laboratory, University of Leeds.)
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The phenomenon of supersensitization observed on repeated injection of alien sera has lately aroused much experimental and clinical interest. The following cases which led me some three years ago, on clinical grounds to assume the occurrence of this phenomenon, appear worth recording, especially since the reaction happened not with anti-diptheritic or anti-plague but with anti-tuberculous serum.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

References

Currie, J. R. (II. 1907). On the supersensitation of persons suffering from diphtheria by repeated injections of horse serum. Journ. of. Hygiene, vol. VII. p. 35. (References to all the important literature are given.)Google Scholar