[The albumin-binding capacity of the blood serum in diphtheria patients]. / Sviazyvaiushchaia sposobnost' al'bumina syvorotki krovi u bol'nykh difteriei.

Total and effective concentrations of blood serum albumins were measured in 45 patients with various clinical forms of diphtheria. Both parameters were decreased in patients with toxic forms of the disease in comparison with the norm and with those in patients during the period when specific complications develop and in patients with all clinical forms of diphtheria at the beginning of the illness.