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Tuberculin

Known as: Tuberculin [Chemical/Ingredient] 
A protein extracted from boiled culture of tubercle bacilli (MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS). It is used in the tuberculin skin test (TUBERCULIN TEST… 
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In BloodLymphocyte proliferation.tuberculin stimulation:ACnc:Pt:Bld:QnMycobacterium bovis tuberculin stimulated gamma interferon:ACnc:Pt:Bld:QnMycobacterium tuberculosis tuberculin stimulated gamma interferon:PrThr:Pt:Bld:Ord

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PPD-BPPD-CGPPD-LPurified Protein Derivative of Tuberculin

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2010
2010
Association of mycobacterial antigen-specific CD4(+) memory T cell subsets with outcome of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Review
1999
Review
1999
Tuberculosis: 10. Prevention.
Tuberculosis (TB) can be prevented by means of 2 major strategies. The first is to prevent transmission from patients with active… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Evidence for a superantigen in human tuberculosis.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Pleuritis as a manifestation of reactivation tuberculosis.
Review
1989
Review
1989
Virus-induced immunosuppression: infections with measles virus and human immunodeficiency virus.
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The stability and immunogenicity of a dispersed-grown freeze-dried Pasteur BCG vaccine.
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Protection to mice afforded by BCG vaccines against an aerogenic challenge by three mycobacteria of decreasing virulence.
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Active pulmonary tuberculosis with negative tuberculin skin reactions.
Despite repeated injections of tuberculin, a subject who is not or has never been infected with tubercle bacilli will not usually… 
1961
1961
Passive transfer of tuberculin sensitivity by tritiated thymidine-labeled lymphoid cells.
Passive transfer of tritiated thymidine-labeled BCG sensitized lymphoid cells into homologous guinea pigs resulted in positive… 
Highly Cited
1949
Highly Cited
1949
The Cellular Transfer of Cutaneous Hypersensitivity to Tuberculin in Man
  • H. Lawrence
  • Proceedings of the Society for Experimental…
  • 1949
  • Corpus ID: 37728884
Summary and Conclusion 1. It has been possible to passively transfer in 12 consecutive instances cutaneous tuberculin… 
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