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. 1975 Apr;11(4):873–875. doi: 10.1128/iai.11.4.873-875.1975

Detection of a leukocytic endogenous mediator-like mediator of serum amino acid and zinc depression during various infectious illnesses.

R W Wannemacher Jr, R S Pekarek, A S Klainer, P J Bartelloni, H L Dupont, R B Hornick, W R Beisel
PMCID: PMC415148  PMID: 1091555

Abstract

Serum samples from patients with many different kinds of infection were shown to contain a substance characteristic of leukocytic endogenous mediator. Generalized bacterial infections produced more leukocytic endogenous mediator than did localized ones; viral infections produced very little. In typhoid fever, mediator concentrations increased before the onset of illness.

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