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The value of active immunization treatment against diphtheria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

A. G. Morison  and
Llywelyn Roberts
A. G. Morison
Affiliation:
From the Public Health Department, City of Bristol
Llywelyn Roberts
Affiliation:
From the Public Health Department, City of Bristol
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Although attempts to produce an active immunity against diphtheria were made as early as 1902, it is since the Schick test was described in 1913 that there has been available some clinically applicable measurement of individual immunity, naturally obtained or artificially produced; and it is probably true to say that large-scale active immunization has been practised in this country for only some 10 or 15 years.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 1937 , pp. 388 - 395
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1937

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