Passive transfer of delayed hypersensitivity reaction to tuberculin in children with protein calorie malnutrition

Eight children with kwashiorkor, four children with marasmus, and five well-nourishedchildren used as controls, all of whom had been tuberculin negative, received passive transfer of material from lymphocytes of a tuberculin positive donor. All of them became tuberculin positive. The results suggest that there was no impairment of delayed hypersensitivity reaction in the malnourished children. It is possible, however, that they would be unable...