Heinz Küstner

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

Metzger H (2003), "Two Approaches to Peanut Allergy", New England Journal of Medicine, 348 (11): 1046–1048, doi:10.1056/nejme030007, PMID 12637615
Prausnitz C, Küstner H (1921), "Studien über die Ueberempfindlichkeit", Zentralbl Bakteriol, 86: 160–169
Stegman JK, Branger E, ed. (2006), Stedman's Medical Dictionary (28 ed.), Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins, ISBN 0-7817-3390-1
"Heinz Küstner Biography". Retrieved April 9, 2010.

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[1] Metzger H (2003), "Two Approaches to Peanut Allergy", New England Journal of Medicine, 348 (11): 1046–1048, doi:10.1056/nejme030007, PMID 12637615

[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

[4] "Heinz Küstner Biography". Retrieved April 9, 2010.