Passive Transfer of Tuberculin Sensitivity to Patients with Hodgkin's Disease

Abstract

THE relation of Hodgkin's disease with tuberculosis has attracted the attention of all students of the subject, beginning with Sternberg.¹ Later, it was noted that these patients are predisposed to certain mycotic and viral infections besides tuberculosis. The tuberculin skin tests were first systematically applied to cases of Hodgkin's disease by Parker and his co-workers,² and a high degree of tuberculin negativity was observed even in the presence of active tuberculosis. Schier et al.³ showed a skin anergy not only to tuberculin but to all allergens that elicit the delayed type of skin reaction. Attempts at passive transfer of tuberculin . . .