The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 60, 655-660,
Copyright, 1934, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
THE PROTECTION AFFORDED BY VACCINATION AGAINST SECONDARY INVADERS DURING COLDS IN INFANCY
Yale Kneeland Jr. M.D.1
1 From the Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the Presbyterian Hospital, New York
All intensive course of vaccination with the pathogenic bacteria of the upper respiratory tract modified favorably the winter outbreak of severe respiratory disease in an infant population. The incidence of the common cold was not affected.
The significance of these findings is discussed.
Submitted on July 26, 1934