TY - JOUR
KW - Bacteriological Techniques
KW - Blood Specimen Collection
KW - Erythrocytes
KW - Hemolysis
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Leukocytes
KW - Sepsis
KW - Skin
AU - Sengupta U
AU - Ramu G
AU - Desikan K V
AB - <p>Thirty five patients of leprosy have been screened for bacteraemia by haemolysis (HL), leucocyte adherence (LA) and buffy coat (BC) methods and the results have been compared. The HL method has yielded not only higher number of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) but also has detected more frequently AFB in blood of leprosy patients as compared to other methods. Further, it has been established that the skin over the cubital fossa does not play any significant role in contaminating blood samples while sampling blood by venepuncture.</p>
BT - Leprosy in India
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/359927?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1978 Jul
IS - 3
J2 - Lepr India
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Thirty five patients of leprosy have been screened for bacteraemia by haemolysis (HL), leucocyte adherence (LA) and buffy coat (BC) methods and the results have been compared. The HL method has yielded not only higher number of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) but also has detected more frequently AFB in blood of leprosy patients as compared to other methods. Further, it has been established that the skin over the cubital fossa does not play any significant role in contaminating blood samples while sampling blood by venepuncture.</p>
PY - 1978
SP - 381
EP - 7
T2 - Leprosy in India
TI - Evaluation of bacteraemia in leprosy patients.
VL - 50
SN - 0024-1024
ER -