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Suported in part by the Thomas Wilson Sanitarium, the Hospital for Consumptives of Maryland (Eudowood Fund), and National Institutes of Health grant AI-21073.
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From the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Immunology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.