[The clinical assessment of the immune status of patients with acute Flexner shigellosis].

A total of 192 patients with Flexner's dysentery 1 have been examined. As a result, sharply pronounced unbalance of cell-mediated and humoral immunity factors has developed in the acute period of dysentery, reaching its maximal manifestations in severe course of the disease. In case of a tendency to a prolonged course of dysentery at the period of convalescence, essential shifts in immunological characteristics persist and the infective agent is repeatedly isolated.