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These experiments indicate that the capacity to form a granulomatous response to lepromin can be induced in guinea pigs as a reaction of hypersensitivity directed toward M. leprae, and that this reactivity is transferable by viable lymphoid cells but not by heat-killed cells or by serum. On this basis, this responsiveness qualifies for inclusion in the category of the delayed hypersensitive states.
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