A complex vaccine in the prevention of staphylococcal, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus infections in esophageal cancer patients
Kochetkova, V.A.; Moskovtseva, R.L.; Mamontov, A.S.
Voprosy Onkologii 33(2): 58-63
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-3758 PMID: 3825005 Document Number: 303568
An analysis of clinico-immunological data has demonstrated a considerable decline in non-specific and specific defences against such major factors of hospital infection in esophageal cancer patients as staphylococcal, blue pus and Proteus bacilli. Immunization with a complex vaccine including concentrated staphylococcal anatoxin, blue pus and Proteus vaccines was shown to stimulate the said factors of anti-infectious immunity and to be followed by a 4.7-fold decrease in the incidence of postoperative pyo-inflammatory complications. The said vaccine may be recommended for prevention of infectious complications in cancer patients since its administration is followed by a low-level reaction matched by a marked increase in immunologic vigor.