What is C-reactive protein?
When studying serum proteins of patients suffering from various inflammatory and necrotic processes, a protein was found that is absent in the serum of healthy individuals and was called C-reactive due to the ability to precipitate the somatic C-polysaccharide of pneumococcus (as it turned out, the latter property is accidental. After the isolation of pure C-reactive protein and obtaining rabbit antiserum to it, it turned out to be possible without much difficulty to discover its presence in the serum of patients and thus to reveal the early stages of inflammatory or necrotic processes.
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