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Endogenous serum pyrogen from rabbits produced fever in dogs and vice versa. Pyrogenicity of EP in the homologous species was dose related, but this was not the case in the heterologous species. Human serum obtained from patients both during fever and after defervescence produced fever in rabbits. These results suggest that pyrogenicity of EP in animals of different species is probably a non-specific phenomenon.
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