Indicators of nonspecific resistance in acute pneumonia in children

Under our supervision there were 50 children aged from 3 months to 3 years, patients with acute pneumonia. In addition to clinical observation and conventional laboratory examination, we determined the complementary (calorimetric method) and lysozyme (nephelometric method) activity of blood serum in all children in the acute period, during the process subsided and during recovery. For the norm, we took 80% for complementary activity, and 40% for lysozyme (the norms were obtained at the Gorky Research Pediatric Institute by V.G. Dorofeychuk, N.P. Zhukova, A.A. Surkova, Zh. I. Klyueva).