Study of granulocyte function of peripheral blood in recurrent erysipelas.

The Boyden chamber technique, the NBT reduction and Candida killing test were carried out on 51 patients with recurrent erysipelas to investigate the non-specific immune response. A statistically significant difference was not observed between the patients and the controls. It is suggested, that the infected individual is not able to increase his resistance via the more effective functioning of the non-specific line, which in effect promotes the possibly multiple occurrence of the disease.