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Immune response to primary immunization with brucella antigen in mycosis fungoides

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The immune response to primary immunization with brucella antigen was studied in 8 patients with mycosis fungoides and 11 controls. The development of as well cellular as humoral hypersensitivity to brucella antigen was followed byin vitro techniques. Both, patients with mycosis fungoides and controls were studied for previously acquired delayed hypersensitivity to tuberculin by skin test. The distribution of B and T cells was encountered among the patients.

Previously acquired cellular immunity was found equal in the two groups, however, induction of cellular hypersensitivity to brucella antigen was found depressed in mycosis fungoides patients compared with the controls. Also the humoral response to brucella antigen could seem depressed, only one of seven patients with mycosis fungoides had a positive titer, while seven of eleven controls had positive titres following vaccination; but the difference between the two groups was not significant.

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Die Immunantwort auf primäre Immunisation mit Brucellaantigen wurde bei 8 Patienten mit Mycosis fungoides und 11 Kontrollen untersucht. Die Entwicklung der cellulären wie auch humoralen Immunantwort auf Brucellaantigen wurde durchin vitro Methoden bestimmt. Bei sämtlichen Patienten wurden zum Nachweis einer früher erworbenen Immunantwort Tuberkulin-Hautteste durchgeführt. Weiterhin wurde die Verteilung von B- und T-Zellen bei allen Patienten untersucht.

Eine früher erworbene celluläre Immunität konnte bei beiden Patientengruppen nachgewiesen werden. Jedoch zeigte sich bei Patienten mit Mykosis fungoides ein Ausbleiben der cellulären Immunreaktion auf Brucellaantigen. Die Bildung zirkulierender Antikörper gegen Brucellaantigen ist gleichfalls vermindert, da nur bei einem der sieben Patienten mit Mycosis fungoides ein positiver Titer nachgewiesen werden konnte, während in der Kontrollgruppe bei sieben von elf Patienten positive Titer nach Brucella-Vaccination erzielt wurden. Die Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Gruppen waren statistisch jedoch nicht signifikant.

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Thulin, H. Immune response to primary immunization with brucella antigen in mycosis fungoides. Arch. Derm. Res. 251, 311–315 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00562235

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