This paper was presented in place of one that was to have been given by the late Professor A. G. Khomenko, Director of the Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow. Professor Khomenko had a long and distinguished career and with his death Russia has lost one of its finest and most active workers in the fight against TB.
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