The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 58, 195-209,
Copyright, 1933, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
RESISTANCE TO PNEUMOCOCCUS INFECTION IN RABBITS FOLLOWING IMMUNIZING INJECTIONS OF HEAT-KILLED PNEUMOCOCCUS SUSPENSIONS
Ernest G. Stillman M.D.1 and
Kenneth Goodner Ph.D.1
1 From the Hospital of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
The degree and duration of the active resistance against pneumococcus infection have been determined in rabbits which received intravenous injections of a heat-killed suspension of pneumococci of the three principal types. The resistance induced by the immunization procedure varied in degree and in duration with each type of Pneumococcus.
Submitted on May 21, 1933