bacteriolytic

For that reason, the immunity so obtained is called bacteriolytic immunity, and the antibody is designated by the name of bacteriolytic antibody.

Physiology or Medicine 1919 - Presentation Speech 1967

One is the thermostable antibody of bacteriolytic immunization formed in the immunized animal and present in its serum; the other exists already in the normal animal; it does not stand up to heating nor to preservation, and does not increase during immunization.

Physiology or Medicine 1919 - Presentation Speech 1967

A very large part of our knowledge about immunity against bacteria and the diseases they provoke is therefore due to the action of haemolytic sera on red corpuscles, and it was only later that attempts were made to find out if, and in what measure, the detected properties apply equally to bacteria and the bacteriolytic sera.

Physiology or Medicine 1919 - Presentation Speech 1967

In 1921, he discovered in «tissues and secretions» an important bacteriolytic substance which he named Lysozyme.

Sir Alexander Fleming - Biography 1964

The activity of streptomycin is principally bacteriostatic, i.e. it checks the bacterial growth and is in some degree also bacteriolytic, i.e. it destroys the tubercle bacillus.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 - Presentation Speech 1964

Of these the most important are (a) bacteriolytic or lysogenic action, (b) agglutinative action, and (c) opsonic action.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The first of these, lysogenic or bacteriolytic action, consists in [v. 03 p. 0178] the production of a change in the corresponding bacterium whereby it becomes granular, swells up and ultimately may undergo dissolution.

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It can be shown that in many cases when bacteria are injected the serum of the treated animal has no bacteriolytic effect, and still an immune body is present, which leads to the fixation of complement; in this case bacteriolysis does not occur, because the organism is not susceptible to the action of the complement.

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The extraordinary bacteriolytic power of lysozyme - a ferment present in our normal cells and secretions - especially in such supposedly inert secretion as the tears - showed me how powerful an antibiotic substance could be.

Sir Alexander Fleming - Banquet Speech 1946

a body formed at the time of immunization, the bacteriolytic antibody, and of a substance present in normal serum and not under the influence of immunization, the alexin or the complement.

Physiology or Medicine 1919 - Presentation Speech 1967