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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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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Evidence for a superantigen in human tuberculosis.
1992
1992
Tuberculin skin testing and the HIV epidemic.
Tuberculosis (TB) cases in the United States have steadily increased in number since 1985. Much of this increase appears… 
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.
1981
1981
Tuberculosis risk for hospital employees: analysis of a five-year tuberculin skin testing program.
This study of hospital employee tuberculin conversion rates was undertaken in a 516-bed urban general hospital to determine if… 
1977
1977
Immunological depletion contributing to familial Hodgkin's disease.
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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