Intensive Immunization of Man
Authors: RICHARD N. PEELER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1965)

Article1 July 1965Intensive Immunization of ManEvaluation of Possible Adverse ConsequencesRICHARD N. PEELER, M.D., PAUL J. KADULL, M.D., LEIGHTON E. CLUFF, M.D., F.A.C.P.RICHARD N. PEELER, M.D., PAUL J. KADULL, M.D., LEIGHTON E. CLUFF, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-63-1-44 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSince 1902, when Zenoni (1) first described the occurrence of amyloidosis in horses intensively immunized to diphtheria toxin, there have been numerous reports of animal experiments in which amyloidosis, as well as arteritis and other manifestations of hypersensitivity, have been induced by the injection of many different antigenic agents (2-21). That such adverse reactions to immunization have not been observed in man is doubtlessly related to the relatively trivial doses of antigen to which the human being is usually exposed. 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