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Koch's phenomenon

also  Koch phenomenon  n :  the response of a tuberculous animal to reinfection with tubercle bacilli marked by necrotic lesions that develop rapidly and heal quickly and caused by hypersensitivity to products of the tubercle bacillus .
 
 

 
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