Burnet, MacFarlane

It had been known since 1941 that red blood-cells are agglutinated by fluids containing influenza virus. In 1942, G. K. Hirst proved that purified influenza virus is quickly and quantitatively adsorbed on red cells, but that, after the elapse of several hours, the virus particle, apparently intact, has come off the surface of the red cells. After this treatment, cells were unable to be agglutinated by influenza virus or to adsorb virus particles. The problem of the interaction of influenza virus with red cells was attacked in a comprehensive manner by Sir Macfarlane Burnet and his coworkers in Melbourne in the period of... 

Antibodies As realized by Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1), antibodies are con-... 

Nevertheless, as MacFarlane Burnet has observed, "I find it impressive that virtually all the clinical types of zinc deficiency including the genetic ones, have been recognised by the positive therapeutic effect of administering zinc salts by mouth" (Dreosti and Smith. 1983). 

Dreosti, I.E. and Smith, R.M. Eds. (1983). Foreword by Sir F, MacFarlane Burnet, in Neurobiology of the Trace Elements, Volume 1. Humana Press, Clifton, New Jersey. 

This 1962 statement by an eminent Nobel laureate, the Australian physician Sir F. Macfarlane Burnet, is typical. By the end of the twentieth century, he commented, we will see the "virtual elimination of infectious disease as a significant factor in societal life." Further study and publication of infectious disease research, he continued, "is almost to write of something that has passed into history." Seven years later, one of my great-uncle s successors. Surgeon General William Stewart, testified to Congress that "it was time to close the book on infectious diseases." They couldn t have been more wrong. 

Ivor E. Dreosti and Richard M. Smith Foreword by Sir F. Macfarlane Burnet... 

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