TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Erythema Nodosum
KW - Female
KW - Granuloma
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Leukocytes
KW - Liver
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Sepsis
AU - Zawar P B
AU - Holla V V
AU - Patil S M
AU - Zawar M P
AU - Chawhan R N
AB - <p>Thirty patients of lepromatous leprosy in a state of reaction (ENL) were studied for bacillaemia and a correlation was made with liver pathology. Buffy coat smears were examined in all, eliminating as far as possible the chances of contamination of blood by the skin bacilli. Thirteen out of thirty patients showed presence of acid fast bacilli (AFB) in the buffy coat smear. Hepatic involvement in the form of leprous granuloma was observed in all, of which 93.3% showed presence of AFB. It is concluded that during reaction the possibility of heightened bacillaemia is less likely and that the systemic spread of infection is not accentuated during the bouts of reaction.</p>
BT - Leprosy in India
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6361382?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1983 Jul
IS - 3
J2 - Lepr India
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Thirty patients of lepromatous leprosy in a state of reaction (ENL) were studied for bacillaemia and a correlation was made with liver pathology. Buffy coat smears were examined in all, eliminating as far as possible the chances of contamination of blood by the skin bacilli. Thirteen out of thirty patients showed presence of acid fast bacilli (AFB) in the buffy coat smear. Hepatic involvement in the form of leprous granuloma was observed in all, of which 93.3% showed presence of AFB. It is concluded that during reaction the possibility of heightened bacillaemia is less likely and that the systemic spread of infection is not accentuated during the bouts of reaction.</p>
PY - 1983
SP - 570
EP - 5
T2 - Leprosy in India
TI - Bacillaemia in lepra reaction: its correlation with liver pathology.
VL - 55
SN - 0024-1024
ER -