T HE ERYTHROCYTES of patients with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) hemolyse at 37 C. in normal compatible human sera in the absence of demonstrable antibody. The reaction is complement dependent and in vivo causes a hemolytic anemia of varying severity. The diagnostic acid hemolysis test for this disorder is performed by demonstrating hemolysis of suspect erythrocytes in the patient’s...

Drug induced autoimmune hemolytic anemia is a well-known complication of drug therapy but it is often misdiagnosed. Drug induced autoimmune hemolytic anemia is difficult to differantiate from classical autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Here, we have reported a case with autoimmune hemolytic anemia might be caused by drugs such as teicoplanin, imipenem and amphotericin B. In our case, on the fifteent...

Alpha-hemolytic-like activity from Campylobacter jejuni was clearly apparent when the medium pH ranged from 6.0 to 6.5, but the hemolytic zones disappeared when the pH of the medium increased. Beta-hemolytic-like activity just beneath the bacterial growth appeared after prolonged incubation. The hemolytic activity was not influenced by the species of blood.

From one strain of hemolytic streptococcus three forms were isolated, which produced three different degrees of hemolysis on the surface of blood agar in the presence of oxygen. The original form was moderately hemolytic; the glossy variant was more hemolytic than the original form; and the third form, obtained by passing the original culture through mice, was non-hemolytic. Under anaerobic con...

I t has often been noted that on a blood agar plate seeded with influenzal sputum the colonies of Bacillus influenz6e are most numerous and grow to larger size in the neighborhood of colonies of certain other organisms, notably the staphylococcus. This phenomenon led the authors to conduct various experiments which may be summarized as follows: Blood agar plates were seeded uniformly with a pur...

1. Minute beta hemolytic streptococci were found to occur from one-third to one-half as frequently in normal individuals as do ordinary beta hemolytic streptococci. 2. They were rarely isolated from the rhinopharynges of individuals suffering from chronic disease. 3. In acute respiratory tract infection other than that due to the ordinary beta hemolytic streptococcus the incidence of minute str...