FOUR years ago Prof. Behring published his remarkable paper “On the mechanism of immunity agains experimental diphtheria in animals.” In this memoir the author stated that it was possible to ...

An unusual prevalence of diphtheria in many small towns, with a high death rate, has been reported by press dispatches during the last few weeks. For example, in the town of New-Providence ...

The value of the serum treatment is even more conclusively shown ... many doctors still living can testify to the horrors of diphtheria in young children in the pre-serum days.

Hospitals that began using his serum therapy saw dramatic drops in mortality rates. In some cases, the death rate among children with diphtheria plummeted from 50% to less than 10%. For the public ...

The test used is a specific skin test much like the Schick test that is used for testing immunity to diphtheria ... began the use of serum from convalescing patients in the treatment of scarlet ...

India's leading vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India has manufactured for the first time first indigenous Tetanus and Diphtheria (Td) vaccines . The vaccine is called Td-Vac and will ...

Following the outbreak of diphtheria in King’s ... and prompt treatment of infection with antibiotics and anttoxoid serum to neutralise the effect of the toxin on organs.