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352. KOPP, I. I. 



Relationship of the plasma protein to the corrected sedimen- 

 tation rate 



J. Lab. Clin. Med. 27:1072-1077, 1942 



As globulin in plasma increases in malarial or typhoid vaccine 

 fever the sedimentation rate is proportionately height«ned. 



353. MORGAN, W. T. J. and PARTRIDGE, S. M. 



An examination of the 0' antigenic complex of Bact . typhosum 



Brit. J. Exper. Path. 23:151-165, 19^2 



A substance possessing the immunologic properties of the anti- 

 gen of E. typhosa was prepared by diethyleneglycol extraction. 

 Three components were found, a protein, a phospholipin and a 

 specific polysaccharide. The protein component was chemically 

 and immunologically similar to the conjugated protein found 

 in B. Shlgae antigen. Toxicity of both antigenic preparations 

 appears to reside in the undegraded polysaccharide component; 

 degradation removes toxicity. 



35^. NEAL, P. A., SCHNEITER, R. and CAMINITA, B. H. 



Report on acute illnesses among rural mattress makers using 

 low-grade stained cotten 



J.A.M.A. 119:107^1082, 1942 



An acute illness appeared among workers on a rural mattress 

 project, in a cotton mill and in cottonseed -processing plants. 

 High concentrations of stained cotton dust were found in the 

 occupational environment. Samples of the cotton were given 

 physical, chemical, mycologic serologic, biologic and bacterio- 

 logic examinations. A gram-negative bacillus was found in 

 stained cotton and cotton dust; the disabling illness, charac- 

 terized by acute intoxication appearing shortly after exposure, 

 could be reproduced by inhalation of dust containing the bact- 

 erium. Aerosols of a sterile filtrate from cultures of the 

 'cotton' bacterium produced similar symptoms. 



