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J H Battershill

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Smallpox and AIDS.

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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Cutaneous testing in the elderly patient with tuberculosis.

A hypothesis is presented that the fully developed cutaneous reaction to tuberculin, as exemplified by diagnostic cutaneous testing in culture-positive patients with tuberculosis, is an "all-or-nothing" phenomenon. In the elderly, this characteristic is maintained, with the value of the test being limited only by an increase in anergy.

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