The Kveim test in lepromatous and tuberculoid leprosy.

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Published in Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis on November 06, 1970

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J M Pearson, J H Pettit, L E Siltzbach, D S Ridley, P D Hart, R J Rees

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