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Lab notes from a vaccine trial at Sioux Falls Army Air Field
- Title:
- Lab notes from a vaccine trial at Sioux Falls Army Air Field
- Creator:
- Heidelberger, Michael
- Date:
- [1944-1945]
- Description:
- During World War II Heidelberger served as a member of the Pneumonia Commission established by the Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases (later the Army Epidemiological Board) under the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army. The Commission, headed by Colin MacLeod (whose name appears on the first page of these immunization records), a microbiologist and co-discoverer of the genetic properties of DNA, organized a trial of a vaccine against pneumococcal pneumonia developed by Heidelberger. The trial, carried out among 20,000 trainees at an air base in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, proved that a vaccine made from a mixture of purified capsular polysaccharides from four different types of pneumococcus (types I, II, V, and VII) provided effective protection against pneumonia when compared with a control group which received saline solution, and which had a higher incidence of the disease.
- Location:
- Box: 14. Folder: 2
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Genre:
- Laboratory notes
- Subject:
- Pneumonia and Vaccines
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 3 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Richard G. Hodges, United States Army Air Forces to Michael Heidelberger, 1944 Letter from Richard G. Hodges, United States Army Air Forces to Michael Heidelberger, 1945 Letter from Michael Heidelberger to Richard G. Hodges, United States Army Air Forces, 1945
- Language:
- English
- Legacy ID:
- DHBBLM
- NLM ID:
- 101584940X172
- Profiles Collection:
- The Michael Heidelberger Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X172
- Story Section:
- Antigens and Antibodies: Heidelberger and The Rise of Quantitative Immunochemistry, 1928-1954