TY - JOUR
KW - Antibodies
KW - Female
KW - Hemagglutination Tests
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Sperm Agglutination
KW - Sperm Motility
KW - Spermatozoa
AU - Gupta S C
AU - Singh P A
AU - Bajaj A K
AU - Budhraja B K
AU - Tripathi A
AB - <p>Sixty two male patients with polar leprosy--38 lepromatous and 24 tuberculoid types were investigated for the presence of antispermatozoal antibodies with special reference to their morphological patterns. Antibodies were detected by three different immunological techniques. Sperm agglutination was found to be the most sensitive. The incidence of antibodies was higher in patients with lepromatous leprosy and was directly proportional to the duration of the disease in both types of leprosy. Morphologically, head-to-head type of agglutination was observed in 50 percent of the patients, mixed in 41.7 percent and tail-to-tail type in 8.3 percent. There was no correlation between the number of ENL attacks and the incidence of anti-bodies. In polar tuberculoid leprosy patients the histological findings of testicular biopsy indicated cell mediated tissue damage occurring in a non-infective form.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3805791?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1986 Apr-Jun
IS - 2
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Sixty two male patients with polar leprosy--38 lepromatous and 24 tuberculoid types were investigated for the presence of antispermatozoal antibodies with special reference to their morphological patterns. Antibodies were detected by three different immunological techniques. Sperm agglutination was found to be the most sensitive. The incidence of antibodies was higher in patients with lepromatous leprosy and was directly proportional to the duration of the disease in both types of leprosy. Morphologically, head-to-head type of agglutination was observed in 50 percent of the patients, mixed in 41.7 percent and tail-to-tail type in 8.3 percent. There was no correlation between the number of ENL attacks and the incidence of anti-bodies. In polar tuberculoid leprosy patients the histological findings of testicular biopsy indicated cell mediated tissue damage occurring in a non-infective form.</p>
PY - 1986
SP - 196
EP - 201
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Antispermatozoal antibodies in leprosy with special reference to their morphological patterns.
VL - 58
SN - 0254-9395
ER -