@article{15298,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Child, Female, Humans, Intestinal Absorption, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Xylose},
  author = {Cook G C},
  title = {Xylose absorption in Papua New Guineans with leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>Blood xylose concentrations were measured at 60, 90 and 120 min after 25 xylose was given orally in 33 well-nourished Papua New Guinean in-patients at Port Moresby; 12 had lepromatous (group A) and seven non-lepromatous (group B) leprosy, and 14 were controls (group C). Differences between mean xylose concentrations were not significant at any time interval. Three patients (two in group A and one in group B) had 90 min xylose concentrations less than 2.0 mmol l-1. There was no association between xylose concentration and current therapy. Leprosy does not impair small-intestinal absorptive function; it therefore differs from other chronic infections, in which there is xylose malabsorption.</p>},
  year = {1982},
  journal = {Acta tropica},
  volume = {39},
  pages = {91-6},
  month = {1982 Mar},
  issn = {0001-706X},
  language = {eng},
}