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Pasteur treatment

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Pasteur treatment
n.
A treatment for infection by the rabies virus in which a series of increasingly strong inoculations with attenuated virus is given to stimulate antibody production during the incubation period of the disease.
Pasteur treatment
Etymology: Louis Pasteur
a method of preventing rabies by daily injections of attenuated cultures of rabies virus cultured in the central nervous system tissues of rabbits. The treatment, developed by Pasteur, is no longer used. See also human diploid cell rabies vaccine.


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The paper's focus was chiefly local, as the front-page headlines of April 19, 1912, attest: ``Large Acreage in Beets,'' ``Bitten by a Mad Dog - Three Persons Now Receiving Pasteur Treatment,'' ``Our Beautiful Sherman Way to Be the Boulevard Par Excellence of America.
FROM THE BEGINNING A NOISY BOOSTER AS THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY HAS ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
When in 1954, 550 dogs succumbed to rabies in the city and 4,400 humans were given the Pasteur treatment, the City Council recommended an ordinance requiring owners to inoculate their dogs against rabies and purchase a license.
L.A.'S PET TROUBLES REQUIRE DOGGED RULES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The paper's focus was chiefly local, as the front-page headlines of April 19, 1912, attest: ``Large Acreage in Beets,'' ``Bitten by a Mad Dog - Three Persons Now Receiving Pasteur Treatment,'' ``Our Beautiful Sherman Way to Be the Boulevard Par Excellence of America.
TRACKING THE PULSE; DAILY NEWS HAS RECORDED, EXPERIENCED VALLEY'S ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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