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Nonspecific Effects of Corynebacteria on Systemic Immunity Responses

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My interest in Corynebacterium parvum as a possible anti-tumor agent goes back to 1965 when a colleague, Dr. James Howard, drew my attention to the work of Halpern et al. on the remarkable capacity of killed C. parvum vaccine to stimulate reticuloendothelial (RE) activity.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

    M. F. A. Woodruff

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  1. Institut de Cancérologie et d’Immunogénétique, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, F-94, Villejuif, France

    Georges Mathé (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Children’s Cancer Research Foundation, 35 Binney Street, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Roy Weiner M.D.

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Woodruff, M.F.A. (1974). Nonspecific Effects of Corynebacteria on Systemic Immunity Responses. In: Mathé, G., Weiner, R. (eds) Investigation and Stimulation of Immunity in Cancer Patients. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49284-6_40

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