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Detoxification of Staphylococcal Toxin by Hydrocortisone and Methylprednisolone
1978
Journal of Medical Microbiology
Seneca et al. (1957) reported that incubation of prednisolone hemisuccinate with " micrococcal " toxin reduced its haemolytic titre four-fold. It has been claimed that haemolysis of rabbit erythrocytes by staphylococcal a toxin is not inhibited by pre-incubating the toxin with cortisone, hydrocortisone, prednisolone, or dexamethasone (Orsi et al., 1962) . However, these investigators found that several androgens slightly reduced the haemolytic titre of cc toxin. This detoxification was not
doi:10.1099/00222615-11-1-67
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