“…The alterations in the partition of the serum proteins of patients with viral hepatitis (3, [14][15][16][17] and a number of other acute infectious diseases (IS), including malaria. (~g ) , pneumonia (20), scarlet fever (21), typhus (22), and infec-tious mononucleosis (23), have been described as an early decrease in serum albuiiiin with an increase in serum globulins. Both alpha and beta globulins are augmented, but the greatest increase is in the gamma globulin fraction.…”