Prechallenge Antibodies: Moderators of Infection Rate, Signs, and Symptoms in Adults Experimentally Challenged

Author Information From the Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology (C.M.A., W.J.D., C.A.B. J.T.S.) andthe Department of Allergy and Immunology (D.P.S.), Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; from the Center for Prevention of Disease and Injury (J.M.G.), University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville; and from the Department of Psychiatry (S.A.C.), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Presented at the 18th Midwinter Research Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., February 1995. This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grant DC 01260 and grant MH 50429. Editor's Note: This Manuscript was accepted for publication May 17, 1996. Send Reprint Requests to Cuneyt M. Alper, MD, Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 3705 5th Ave. at DeSoto St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.