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SOME authors1–5 have shown that, in certain conditions, unspecific precipitations occur if serum lipoproteins are brought into contact with various sulphated polysaccharides. Following a communication by Allerhand and Zitrin6 we tried to demonstrate tuberculosis-specific antibodies in the sera of 35 tuberculosis patients. We surmised that it could be possible to obtain a differential diagnosis for these patients in contrast to patients with certain forms of carcinoma of the lungs.
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TEICHMANN, B., VOGT, R. Unspecific Lipoprotein Precipitation in Experiments for Detection of Tuberculosis-specific Antibodies. Nature 202, 916 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202916a0
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