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USE OF ANTI-INFLUENZAL SERUM

LOUIS SPEKTER, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1936;51(3):614-617.

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The use of anti-influenzal serum with complement offers a hopeful method for the treatment of influenzal meningitis, a disease which has a high mortality. Neal, Jackson and Applebaum¹ listed thirty-five reported cases of recovery up to February 1934, including four cases of their own. Eight of the patients received anti-influenzal serum. The recovery in four of the eight cases could not be ascribed to the use of the serum. Three more cases of recovery,² not listed by Neal and her associates, were reported in the literature prior to 1934. Since February 1934, there have been five more recoveries,³ including the one reported here. Of the eight patients, only two (Rittenberg's^3b and mine) received anti-influenzal serum. For both, complement⁴ was used with the serum. Repeated spinal taps and other nonspecific measures were used in most of the cases of recovery reported.

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Author Affiliations
DURHAM, N. C.

From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Oregon School of Medicine, and the Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children.

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