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  • the tuberculin skin Test
    Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1993
    Co-Authors: Robin E Huebner, Maybelle F Schein, John B. Bass
    Abstract:

    nounced the discovery of a cure for tuberculosis. The cure consisted of giving patients subcutaneous doses of tuberculin, a brownish, transparent liquid obtained from culture filtrates of MWcobacterium tuberculosis. This treatment caused a febrile reaction within 4 or 5 hours. In most cases, the fever was accompanied by vomiting, rigors, and other constitutional symptoms. Koch reported that the administration of increasing daily doses of tuberculin resulted in the rapid healing of mild cases of tuberculosis and in slow, progressive improvement in more serious cases [1]. Patients who did not have tuberculosis experienced slight pains in the limbs and transient fatigue when injected with tuberculin. Less than a year after the announcement, Koch's tuberculin was disproved as a cure for consumption [1]. Koch did not realize that he had discovered what would become one of the most widely used diagnostic Tests ever developed. The observation of different responses to tuberculin in patients with and without tuberculosis led to the development of new methods of administering the antigen. The use of these new methods eliminated systemic symptoms but caused a local reaction at the injection site. Various methods of administration were Tested, including the Pirquet cutaneous Test, the Moro percutaneous patch Test, the Mantoux Intracutaneous Test, and the Calmette conjunctival Test [1]. The first three methods remain in use. By the early 1930s tuberculin skin Testing had become a method for screening apparently healthy persons for infection with M. tuberculosis. At that time it was common practice to give a series of four or five graded doses of tuberculin before excluding the possibility of tuberculous infection. As the use of the tuberculin skin Test increased, evidence accumulated that not all reactions to purified protein derivative

Kenji Tadokoro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the diagnostic value of a new whole blood histamine release Test using paper disc coupled antigens results compared with Intracutaneous Test rast and eye Test
    Arerugī (Allergy), 1991
    Co-Authors: Kenji Tadokoro, Haruhisa Mita, Kazuo Akiyama, T Hayakawa, Maki Hasegawa, Yuji Maeda, Hiroshi Yasueda, T Shida
    Abstract:

    We have developed a novel histamine release Test (HR) using whole blood and antigen-coupled RAST paper discs, for the screening of allergens rather in a short time with a small amount of blood. Histamine was determined by a RIA kit. In order to evaluate the diagnostic value, the results of the Test were compared with those of RAST, Intracutaneous Tests, and eye Tests in 45 allergic patients. HR correlates better with RAST than Intracutaneous Test in almost all antigens. The closest positive correlation with the other Tests was seen in mite allergen, followed by pollen, foods and mould spores in that order. When the HR was positive for house dust, 100% of the patients were also positive for the eye Test, which is reported to closely correlate with bronchial provocation Tests. HR seemed to be a useful Test not only for the screening but also for the determination of pathogenic allergens.

  • topical thrombin induced ige mediated anaphylaxis rast analysis and skin Test studies
    The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 1991
    Co-Authors: Kenji Tadokoro, Takayuki Ohtoshi, Shigeru Takafuji, Kazunori Nakajima, Shuji Suzuki, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Koji Ito, Terumasa Miyamoto, Masaharu Muranaka
    Abstract:

    Bovine topical thrombin (BTT) is a heterologous plasma thrombin concentrate that has been frequently used for the hemostasis since the 1940s. Recently, three patients in Japan went into shock after the topical application of BTT at lesion sites, and two of these patients had received BTT repeatedly. The clinical symptoms and the increased anti-BTT percent RAST counts suggest that these reactions were shock mediated by anti-BTT IgE antibodies. The RAST-inhibition analysis suggested that the antigenic substance(s) were bovine-specific moiety(ies) mainly involved in the contaminant rather than bovine thrombin itself. The skin Tests were studied to predict such allergic reactions. The Intracutaneous Test provoked nonspecific reactions even at the low concentrations of BTT. The prospective study on the predictive value of the prick Test with 1000 U/ml (1 mg/ml) of BTT in 192 patients suggested that it is useful to detect highly sensitive patients. In addition, the increased levels of anti-BTT IgE antibodies in patients 1 month after the single administration of BTT suggested the immunogenicity of the topical application of BTT.