Heinz Küstner

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Heinz Küstner (1897 — 1963) was a German gynecologist and obstetrician who helped develop the Prausnitz-Küstner test while an assistant of Otto Prausnitz. He died after years of accidental inoculation from his own experiments with antibodies and infectious agents isolated after gynecologic operations in 1931.[1][2][3][4]

References

  1. Metzger H (2003), "Two Approaches to Peanut Allergy", New England Journal of Medicine 348 (11): 1046–1048 
  2. Prausnitz C, Küstner H (1921), "Studien über die Ueberempfindlichkeit", Zentralbl Bakteriol 86: 160–169 
  3. Stegman JK, Branger E, ed. (2006), Stedman's Medical Dictionary (28 ed.), Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins, ISBN 0-7817-3390-1 
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