Viral Respiratory Disease and Immune Response in the Aged and in a Pediatric Population

摘要

The current report presents preliminary laboratory results on virus isolations from a two month epidemiologic study of infants and children admitted to Cook County Hospital with sever respiratory infections during March, April, and May of this year. The results are tentative and no identification of the agents recovered is reported. The occurence and fluctuation of anti-immunoglobulin antibody in these same infants and children with respiratory disease is noted. Data on the effects of kaolin absorption and periodate treatment of sera from elderly patients is presented with special reference to the influence of such treatments on the anti-globulin levels, the total serum protein, and the serum protein pattern on immunoelectrophoretic analysis. Finally, initial observations on anti-complementary activity of latex FII positive and Waaler-Rose positive sera are discussed. (Author)