The mechanism of immunity in tbc.

Abstract

Experimental studies of V. A. Lyubarsky, N. L. Zhivago and A. F. Korzhinskaya (Arch. Exp. Biol. And Med., 1925, No. 1) convinced these authors that bacteriolysis (lipolysis) of tbc bacilli in immune the body does not occur - the immunity to tbc is of a cellular nature, namely, in the immune body, tbc bacilli are fixed in order to isolate them from the body, which is achieved by the formation of tubercles with all their subsequent transformations. Along with this, there is a direct release of tbc rods from the body, which occurs through the bile and intestines. The specified mechanism of immunity is the same regardless of whether we are dealing with virulent or low-virulent bacilli. The same is the mechanism of immunity in relation to acid-resistant saprophytes.