@article{3578,
  keywords = {Color Vision Defects, Female, Humans, leprosy, Male, Prevalence},
  author = {Shwe T},
  title = {Prevalence of colour blindness among patients with leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>Using Ishihara test plates the prevalence of colour blindness was studied on six hundred and ninety-seven leprosy patients and two hundred and ninety-two normal healthy controls. 7.88% of male patients with tuberculoid leprosy, 12.18% of male patients with lepromatous leprosy, and 0.67% of male controls were detected to be colour blind (red-green deficiency or total colour weakness). The differences between the different groups are significant. Among female patients and controls, only one lepromatous leprosy patient was detected to have red-green deficiency. This suggests the possibility of a genetic predisposition to Mycobacterium leprae infection in patients with leprosy.</p>},
  year = {1992},
  journal = {Indian journal of leprosy},
  volume = {64},
  pages = {483-6},
  month = {1992 Oct-Dec},
  issn = {0254-9395},
  language = {eng},
}