[The mouse paw edema test for titrating Shigella toxin and antitoxin and for determining the safety of the anatoxin]. / Test oteka lapy myshi dlia titrovaniia shigelleznogo toksina, antitoksina i opredeleniia bezvrednosti anatoksina.

The method for the titration of Shigella dysenteriae I neurotoxin, toxoid prepared from this toxin and different antitoxic preparations in the mouse paw edema test has been developed. The quantitative determination of antitoxin is based on the neutralization test. The conditions of titration (the dilutions of the neurotoxin and the neutralization doses of the antitoxin), as well as criteria for the evaluation of the positive or negative results, have been established.

[Neutralizing action of human blood preparations on Shigella enterotoxins and choleragen]. / Neitralizuiushchee deistvie preparatov krovi v cheloveka na énterotoksiny Shigella i kholerogen.

The possibility of neutralizing the enterotoxic activity of S. dysenteriae 1 neurotoxin, S. sonnei live virulent cultures and cholerigen with immune sera of different animals, normal human sera and commercial gamma-globulin preparations is shown.