TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Child
KW - Evaluation Studies as Topic
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
AU - REICH C V
AU - Guinto R S
AU - Cellona R V
AU - Fajardo T T
AU - Madarang M G
AB - <p>A test is described that utilized a laser nephelometric measure of the interaction between human serum and a leprosy biopsy suspension to demonstrate household contact with a leprosy index case. None of the test sera was from persons with clinical evidence of the disease. There was a 5:1 ratio of higher level reactors in sera from household contacts vs high level reactors in sera from persons in the surrounding community. This did not appear to be a result of age, sex, family relationship to the index case, or clinical character of the index case. Some index cases had high level serum reactors among their contacts; others did not. This phenomenon was not a function of the clinical classification of the index case. The reason is unknown. This test should provide another practical means to study leprosy.</p>

BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - <p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7195880?dopt=Abstract</p>

DA - 1981 Mar
IS - 1
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A test is described that utilized a laser nephelometric measure of the interaction between human serum and a leprosy biopsy suspension to demonstrate household contact with a leprosy index case. None of the test sera was from persons with clinical evidence of the disease. There was a 5:1 ratio of higher level reactors in sera from household contacts vs high level reactors in sera from persons in the surrounding community. This did not appear to be a result of age, sex, family relationship to the index case, or clinical character of the index case. Some index cases had high level serum reactors among their contacts; others did not. This phenomenon was not a function of the clinical classification of the index case. The reason is unknown. This test should provide another practical means to study leprosy.</p>

PY - 1981
SP - 21
EP - 6
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Evaluation of a new blood test for its potential to indicate leprosy infection prior to the appearance of clinical symptoms.
UR - http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v49n1a04.pdf
VL - 49
SN - 0148-916X
ER -