Serial Mitsuda Tests for Identification of Reactional Tuberculoid and Reactional Borderline Leprosy Forms

dc.contributorDept. of Dermatol. and Radiotherapy
dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.contributorDivision of Research and Training
dc.contributorInstituto Lauro de Souza Lima
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dc.date.created2022-04-28T19:54:33Z
dc.date.issued1998-06-01
dc.identifierInternational Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, v. 66, n. 2, p. 190-200, 1998.
dc.identifier0148-916X
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/224083
dc.identifier2-s2.0-0031794409
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/5404212
dc.description.abstractThe authors studied the Mitsuda reaction in 37 leprosy patients (18 reactional tuberculoid, 19 reactional borderline cases) and compared the results with clinical findings, histopathology and bacilloscopy. Evaluation of the Mitsuda reaction was carried out on days 30, 60, 90 and 120. Most of the reactional tuberculoid patients showed a Mitsuda reaction of +++ in opposition to the reactional borderline patients who showed only +. Bacilloscopic analysis revealed that in 75% of the reactional tuberculoid cases there were rare or no bacilli; bacilli were present in 95% of the reactional borderline cases. The authors conclude that reactional tuberculoid cases have a greater ability to clear bacilli than reactional borderline cases, and that the Mitsuda reaction is a useful tool for the differentiation between these two types of leprosy.
dc.languageeng
dc.relationInternational Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
dc.sourceScopus
dc.titleSerial Mitsuda Tests for Identification of Reactional Tuberculoid and Reactional Borderline Leprosy Forms
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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