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WITH DEVELOPMENT INTO ACTIVE (ALLERGIC) PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS

STANLEY CRAWFORD, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1933;27(5):766-777.

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There are variability and multiformity in the cutaneous manifestations of tuberculosis as there are in syphilis, but to a lesser extent. Tuberculosis has different sites of inoculation about which little is known, but which may occur in the skin, tonsils and lymphatic structures, lungs, intestines, bones and joints.

The two cases embodied in this report are considered to be cutaneous tuberculosis of an anergic type related to the tuberculid or sarcoid group. They are of infrequent occurrence. The lesions of the skin are considered probably due to mutation or prebacillary granular, coccoid or filamentous forms in the life cycle of the tubercle bacillus. Whether these forms were developmental or degenerative could not be determined. Attenuated or inert tubercle bacilli of low virulence or toxins liberated by such organisms are also possible causes. The bovine type of this organism was suspected in these cases, though an avian species . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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