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| AYRES,J. A.; BARRAVIERA,B.. |
| This review deals with heterologous sera produced and used in Brazil. The authors studied 64 patients. Of these, 35 had been attacked by domestic and wild animals and received antirabies serum; 20 had been bitten by venomous animals (snakes and scorpions) and were treated with specific antivenoms; and 9 had traumas and received antitetanic serum All these patients were submitted to the intradermal sensitivity test before, and 30 days after reveiving heterologous serotherapy. The following results obtained by the authors agree with those in literature: - The intradermal test using undiluted heterologous serum produced a more acute reaction than that using heterologous serum diluted 1:10; - The larger the volume of serum, the larger was the wheal directly... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Sensitivity test; Heterologous serotherapy. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-79301999000200003 |
