Volgograd Journal of Medical Research
Quarterly Journal of Science and Practice

UDK: УДК 61(09):616.9-053.2(09)

REVISITING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND CLINICAL APPLICATION OF ANTIDIPHTHERIC SERUM

O. S. Kitsenko

Волгоградский государственный медицинский университет, кафедра истории и культурологии

Abstract

The article analyzes the main stages of the discovery and clinical application of antidiphtheric serum therapy as well as its importance for the further development of ideas about the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

Keywords

infectious diseases, diphtheria, serum therapy, antitoxin.

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