Abstract

tive form of lysozyme is present in leukocytes in sufficient concentration to accomplish intracellular digestion of certain human pathogens.2 Daly3 observed that when human nasal mucous, which contained lysozyme, was mixed with a broth suspension of Type III pneumococcus and incubated at 37 C for 1 hour, the organisms failed to produce fatal infection in mice. This result was not obtained when

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