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This paper deals with the effect of the blood plasma and serum of animals with different species-resistance to tuberculosis on the respiration and phosphate assimulation in Koch's bacillus. An ability of the serum in the naturally resistant animals to depress the oxidative phosphorus assimilation inM. tuberculosis was detected, which testifies to the presence in these animals of a humoral factor evidently connected with phenomena of antituberculosis immunity. The latter confirms the fact that the serum of immunized guinea pigs acquires an ability to stop the binding of inorganic phosphate byM. tuberculosis. The factor described is not specific, since it exerts the same effect on the phosphorus metabolism of other microorganisms as well (E. coli).
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Vitrinskaya, A.M. The influence of the plasma and blood serum of animals of different species-resistance on the assimilation of oxygen and phosphorus by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bull Exp Biol Med 51, 466–469 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00779535
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00779535