A protein extracted from boiled culture of tubercle bacilli (MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS). It is used in the tuberculin skin test (TUBERCULIN TEST) for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection in asymptomatic persons.
    

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'Wellcome' sera vaccines and tuberculins are all British.

Koch's Tuberculin : for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in cattle : tested, before being issued, by the State Control Board at the Royal Prussian Institute for Experimental Therapeutics in Frankfort o/M. (Director: prof. Dr. P. Ehrlich) : prepared in the serum department of E. Merck, Darmstadt.

Tuberculin in diagnosis and treatment : a text-book of the specific diagnosis and therapy of tuberculosis for practitioners and students / By Dr. Bandelier ... and Dr. Roepke.

Plain rules for the use of tuberculin / by R. Allan Bennett.

The standardization of tuberculin / C.C. Okell and H.J. Parish.

Lehrbuch der spezifischen Diagnostik und Therapie der Tuberkulose : für Ärzte und Studierende / von Dr. Bandelier und Dr. Roepke ; mit einem Vorwort von Robert Koch.

The tuberculin treatment of consumption / by H. Vaughan Barber.

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Tuberculin in diagnosis and treatment : a text-book of the specific diagnosis and therapy of tuberculosis for practitioners and students / By Dr. Bandelier ... and Dr. Roepke.

Plain rules for the use of tuberculin / by R. Allan Bennett.

The standardization of tuberculin / C.C. Okell and H.J. Parish.

Lehrbuch der spezifischen Diagnostik und Therapie der Tuberkulose : für Ärzte und Studierende / von Dr. Bandelier und Dr. Roepke ; mit einem Vorwort von Robert Koch.

The tuberculin treatment of consumption / by H. Vaughan Barber.