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A Sickness in the Serum, Part 2: The Birth of Immune Complex Disease

Jul 8, 2021
29:41

The second episode in the series delves into the experiments and observations of Dr. Clemens (Baron) von Pirquet who first proposed that antibodies and antigens join forces to wreak havoc.

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  • Intro :10
  • Today’s episode :26
  • A recap of the previous episode :43
  • About Baron von Pirquet 4:40
  • What’s going on in the study of infectious disease and immunology in the early 1900s? 6:41
  • Writing the paper, “Serum Sickness” 13:13
  • What are the antibodies doing at that time? 19:10
  • What happened to Dr. Pirquet? 20:44
  • Pirquet’s medical student, Bela Schick 25:35
  • Episode wrap-up 27:27
  • The next episode 27:56
  • Thanks again for listening! 29:17

Disclosures: Brown reports no relevant financial disclosures.

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References:

Shulman ST. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2017;6:376-379.

Silverstein AM. Nat Immunol. 2000;1:453-455.

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