Studies on Tuberculin Fever

STUDIES ON TUBERCULIN FEVER* IV. THE PASSIVE TRANSFER OF REACTIVITY WITH VARIOUS TlSSlmS OF SENSITIZED DONOR RABBITS

Fever is a hallmark of tuberculin hypersensitivity. Ever since the dassic papers of von Pirquet (1) and the clinico-pathologic observations of Rich (2), fever has been recognized as a cardinal sign of tuberculous infection. The actual events, however, that lead to elevated body temperature in this disease have remained obscure. Many manifestations of tuberculin hypersensitivity, like the skin t...

Studies on the modification of Dorset - Henly medium for the producrtion of bovine tuberculin

Unusual etiology of cystic lesions in the lung.

57 year old man was admitted because of cystic lesions on his chest x-ray film (Fig 1). Eight months earlier, transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, grade 3, was diagnosed, for which he received local irradiation, followed by radical cystectomy. There was no evidence of metastatic disease. On admission, the patient denied increased cough, sputum production, dyspnea, fever, weight loss, hem...

Cat-Scratch Disease In Adult Hospitalized For Prolonged-Fever Associated With Multiple Lymphadenopathies and Weight Loss

We report a 19-year-old patient with a Cat-scratch disease presenting three months continuous alteration of the general condition, including prolonged-fever, anorexia, asthenia, weight loss associated with adenitis and multiple thoracic-abdominal adenopathies, leukocytosis with neutrophil polynuclear predominance, and increased of C-reactive protein. The serologies of toxoplasmosis, infectious ...

Prognostic factors in 454 cases of Hodgkin's disease.

between 1922 and 1963 was carried out. Clinical stage, age, sex, histolÃ3gica! type, presence of or absence of loss of weight, fever, night sweats, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and red cell, granulocyte, and lymphocyte blood counts all have significant correlation with survival. Most of these factors are themselves interrelated. Statistical studies were carried out in order to evaluate the i...