@article{17023,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Child, Evaluation Studies as Topic, Female, Humans, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged},
  author = {REICH C V and Guinto R S and Cellona R V and Fajardo T T and Madarang M G},
  title = {Evaluation of a new blood test for its potential to indicate leprosy infection prior to the appearance of clinical symptoms.},
  abstract = {<p>A test is described that utilized a laser nephelometric measure of the interaction between human serum and a leprosy biopsy suspension to demonstrate household contact with a leprosy index case. None of the test sera was from persons with clinical evidence of the disease. There was a 5:1 ratio of higher level reactors in sera from household contacts vs high level reactors in sera from persons in the surrounding community. This did not appear to be a result of age, sex, family relationship to the index case, or clinical character of the index case. Some index cases had high level serum reactors among their contacts; others did not. This phenomenon was not a function of the clinical classification of the index case. The reason is unknown. This test should provide another practical means to study leprosy.</p>
},
  year = {1981},
  journal = {International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association},
  volume = {49},
  pages = {21-6},
  month = {1981 Mar},
  issn = {0148-916X},
  url = {http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v49n1a04.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}