@article{1593,
  keywords = {Adult, Biomarkers, Female, Humans, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Nitric Oxide, Prognosis, Recurrence, Sensitivity and Specificity, Severity of Illness Index, Statistics, Nonparametric},
  author = {Schön T and Gebre N and Sundqvist T and Habetmariam H S and Engeda T and Britton S},
  title = {Increased levels of nitric oxide metabolites in urine from leprosy patients in reversal reaction.},
  abstract = {<p>We measured the metabolites of NO [nitrite (NO2-) and nitrate (NO3-)] in urine from Ethiopian patients suffering from leprosy. The urinary level of NO2-/NO3- in a group of healthy Ethiopians was 1020 +/- 471 microM (n = 22). Leprosy patients in reversal reaction had significantly higher levels of NO2-/NO3- (1817 +/- 492 microM, p < 0.001, n = 12) than both the control group and leprosy patients who were not in reversal reaction (1079 +/- 446 microM, n = 12). We conclude that the reversal reaction in leprosy in associated with increased urinary levels of nitric oxide metabolites.</p>},
  year = {1999},
  journal = {Leprosy review},
  volume = {70},
  pages = {52-5},
  month = {1999 Mar},
  issn = {0305-7518},
  url = {http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1999/v70n1/pdf/v70n1a11.pdf},
  doi = {10.5935/0305-7518.19990011},
  language = {eng},
}