Abstract

The several reports of Elise L'Esperance on the finding of the avian tubercle bacillus in the lesions of Hodgkin's and Pel-Ebstein disease have stimulated interest in the question of the infectiousness of this micro-organism for human beings. One of the questions suggested by these reports is that of the possible use of the reaction with avian tuberculin in the diagnosis of avian infection, and this question involves the fundamental one of the specificity of the reaction of hypersensitiveness that can be elicited with the tuberculins made from the three more important types of tubercle bacilli.

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