PATHOHISTOLOGICAL STUDY ON TUBERCULIN REACTION PRODUCED IN HUMAN NASAL MUCOSA

Abstract

Nasal mucosa is always exposed to the danger of the invasion of microorganisms as the opening of respiratory system, therefore, it is very much likely that this part of the body might possess some particular function which would prevent the invasion of pathogenic agents such as tubercle bacilli. As it was not practicable to inoculate virulent tubercle bacilli into human nasal mucosa, tuberculin injection was made into the nasal mucosa and the reactions produced were examined pathohistologically in order to know some aspect of such defensive function.