[Role of leukocyte disintegration products in increasing macrophage resistance to the causative agent of orinthosis].

The dymanics of formation of macrophagal granulomas in the liver of albino mice was studied after intravenous infection with the causative agent of ornithosis. In formation of granulomas macrophages underwent the stage of reutilization of the leukocyte disintergration and became resistant to the causative agent of ornithosis. Together with the leukocyte remants histones and cation proteins could penetrate into the macrophages cytoplasm; these displayed a high antironithosis activity in vitro. An increase of macrophage resistance to the causative agent after reutilization of the products of leukocyte disintegration apparently sreved as one of the mechanisms of resistance formation in the foci of inflammation in ornithosis.