SKIN TESTING FOR BRUCELLOSIS (UNDULANT FEVER) IN SCHOOL CHILDREN

Abstract

7122 school children tested intradermally with brucellergin gave 9% positive reactions with (a) increasing percentage of positive skin reactors in successive age groups; (b) no marked sex difference; (c) lowest incidence in colored children; (d) 79.3% of positive reactors consumed raw milk; (e) no correlation was found between positive brucellergin and positive tuberculin reactors.