On the causes of Wasserman's positive reaction to malaria

Abstract

It has long been known that the serum of patients infected with malaria produces positive WaR. both during and some time after an attack. Since every attack of malaria is accompanied by the destruction of a significant number of red blood cells and, on the other hand, extracts from the organs of erythrocyte-rich cells are used to diagnose luteal serodiagnosis, the authors have suggested that positive WaR serum from malaria-infected patients is due to the reaction of erythrocyte lipoids with homologous antibodies. On this basis, the authors studied the complementary binding properties of erythrocyte extracts.

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