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]

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References

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