Agglutinating and complement-fixing antibodies to Trichomonas vaginalis have been found in sera from infected patients of both sexes and also in control sera Weld and Kean (1958) described a cytolytic factor in human serum capable of destroying T. vaginalis in a few minutes. This factor was inactivated by heating for 30 min. at 56C. and lost activity on storage. All the human sera examined, as well as sera from rabbits, hamsters, guinea-pigs, rats, and dogs, were deleterious to T. vaginalis. This paper confirms the above report on the cytolytic factor. The influence of serum on determinations of the concentration oftrichomonicidal drugs in serum has been investigated.
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