Abstract
It has been reported by Y. Takahashi and co-workers that kaoline powder could be sensitized with the phosphatide extracted from tubercle bacilli to agglutinate with the serum in tuberculous patients, and that in this reaction the agglutination titer has been higher than haemo-agglutination reaction by Middlebrook and Dubos.
The present work has employed this kaoline agglutination method for detection of diagnostics in active and progressive tuberculoses.
In this result, it may be expressed as follows: 1) The titer in serum of tuberculous patients (292 cases) were clearly differentiated from the normal human serum (30 cases).
2) In the tuberculous patients, the titer of this reaction responsible for far advanced cases is highest, and for moderately abvanced is higher than that of minimum cases.
3) On the tuberculous patients with sputum persistently positive for tubercle bacilli, it is so high fourfold in this titer than one of negative.
