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In 1911 and 1912 at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, Noguchi was working to develop a syphilis skin test similar to the tuberculin skin test.
In the experiment, Noguchi injected an extract of syphilis called luetin under the subjects ' upper arm skin.
Skin reactions varied among healthy subjects and syphilis patients by the disease's stage and its treatment.
The remaining subjects were " controls " who did not have syphilis and were orphans or hospital patients.
The hospital patients had nonsyphilitic diseases, such as malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, and pneumonia.
Finally, of the controls, were normal individuals, mostly children between the ages of 2 and 18 years.
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