TY - JOUR KW - Dapsone KW - Drug Therapy, Combination KW - Female KW - Follow-Up Studies KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Rifampin AU - Ramanan R AU - Manglani P R AU - Ghorpade A AU - Bhagoliwal S K AB -

One hundred and twenty nine newly registered cases of pauci-bacillary leprosy were put on Dapsone daily and Rifampicin once a month and were followed up for one year. Out of 129 cases, 108 (83.7%) were found to be clinically active at the end of one year of multidrug treatment (MDT). In 25 out of these 108 cases, skin biopsy was done and well defined granulomas were seen after therapy in 11 patients (44%).

BT - Indian journal of leprosy C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3611861?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1987 Jan-Mar IS - 1 J2 - Indian J Lepr LA - eng N2 -

One hundred and twenty nine newly registered cases of pauci-bacillary leprosy were put on Dapsone daily and Rifampicin once a month and were followed up for one year. Out of 129 cases, 108 (83.7%) were found to be clinically active at the end of one year of multidrug treatment (MDT). In 25 out of these 108 cases, skin biopsy was done and well defined granulomas were seen after therapy in 11 patients (44%).

PY - 1987 SP - 50 EP - 53 T2 - Indian journal of leprosy TI - Follow-up study of pauci-bacillary leprosy on-multi-drug regimen. VL - 59 SN - 0254-9395 ER -