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[The first tuberculosis cure with chemotherapy: a lupus patient in Hornheide]
1Fachklinik Hornheide an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.
Pneumologie (Stuttgart, Germany)
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
Karl Wilhelm Kalkoff (1909-1981) describes in his unpublished memoirs the first cure of a female patient suffering from a severe form of tuberculosis cutis of the lupus vulgaris type. The drug used in this case was TBI/698 developed by Bayer Leverkusen, which was later named Conteben. This was the first chemotherapeutic cure of tuberculosis.