TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Antigens
KW - Coccidioidin
KW - Dinitrochlorobenzene
KW - Humans
KW - Irritants
KW - Lepromin
KW - leprosy
KW - Skin
KW - Skin Tests
KW - Tuberculin Test
AU - Kumar B
AU - Kaur S
AU - Ganguly N K
AU - Sharma S
AB - <p>Forty seven patients of various types of leprosy were skin tested with PPD, Dharmendra lepromin, DNCB, Coccidiodin, histamine and croton oil. Twenty five age matched normal controls were also included in the study. All types of leprosy patients reacted in smaller numbers and with decreased response to all antigens and irritants as compared to normal controls. Depression of response being minimum in tuberculoid and maximum in lepromatous group. None of the patients or controls reacted to coccidiodin. Details are given.</p>
BT - Leprosy in India
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7206636?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1980 Jul
IS - 3
J2 - Lepr India
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Forty seven patients of various types of leprosy were skin tested with PPD, Dharmendra lepromin, DNCB, Coccidiodin, histamine and croton oil. Twenty five age matched normal controls were also included in the study. All types of leprosy patients reacted in smaller numbers and with decreased response to all antigens and irritants as compared to normal controls. Depression of response being minimum in tuberculoid and maximum in lepromatous group. None of the patients or controls reacted to coccidiodin. Details are given.</p>
PY - 1980
SP - 405
EP - 10
T2 - Leprosy in India
TI - Cutaneous responses to antigens and irritants in patients of leprosy.
VL - 52
SN - 0024-1024
ER -