[The clinico-pathogenetic significance of disorders of the immune status in dysentery].

As many as 256 patients with Flexner's dysentery caused by the same source of infection were examined. It has been established that in patients with a severe and protracted course of the disease, secondary immunodeficiency is formed by the relative hypersuppressor type and the function of phagocytizing macrophages decreases. Patients with the reduced immune characteristics manifest deceleration of convalescence and repeated isolation of Shigella after the antibiotic therapy. It is concluded that the use of immunocorrectors is advisable in a complex of different methods of the treatment for the protracted and severe forms of dysentery.