grenard at herpmed.com wrote:
: I believe that antibodies can be harvested from the sera of infected
: individuals, concentrated and then administered to victims to fight
: their infection. The source/host must be a survivor/carrier of the
: virus (hence the search for the original host) which would have a high titer
: antibodies to the agent in its blood. As an aside I think
Wouldn't the antibodies be anti-idiotypic? For example, If the monkey's
ab to the virus were injected into a human, wouldn't the human's immune
system mount a response against these foriegn ab's? Are humans that close
to any monkey to be able to accept the ab?
Just trying to be difficult,
Peter
pkrug at emory.edu
