TY - JOUR
KW - Agglutination Tests
KW - Antibodies, Anticardiolipin
KW - Antibodies, Bacterial
KW - Humans
KW - Immunoglobulin G
KW - Immunoglobulin M
KW - leprosy
KW - Mass Screening
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Predictive Value of Tests
AU - Thawani G
AU - Mukherjee A
AU - Bhatia V N
AB - <p>One hundred thirty-three leprosy sera (83 multibacillary (MB) and 50 paucibacillary (PB) cases) were screened by lepro-agglutination (LA) and M.leprae particle agglutination (MLPA) tests. Larger number of MB sera were positive by LA (86.75%) than by MLPA (45.12%) test. Thirty-seven of the 45 MB sera negative by MLPA test were positive by LA test. The reverse was true in three out of 11 MB sera. PB sera showed positivity of 16% in LA test and 24% in MLPA test. All the 55 sera from normal healthy individuals and 18 VDRL positive sera from syphilis patients were found to be negative by LA test.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7861046?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1994 Jul-Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>One hundred thirty-three leprosy sera (83 multibacillary (MB) and 50 paucibacillary (PB) cases) were screened by lepro-agglutination (LA) and M.leprae particle agglutination (MLPA) tests. Larger number of MB sera were positive by LA (86.75%) than by MLPA (45.12%) test. Thirty-seven of the 45 MB sera negative by MLPA test were positive by LA test. The reverse was true in three out of 11 MB sera. PB sera showed positivity of 16% in LA test and 24% in MLPA test. All the 55 sera from normal healthy individuals and 18 VDRL positive sera from syphilis patients were found to be negative by LA test.</p>
PY - 1994
SP - 315
EP - 20
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Evaluation of modified lepro-agglutination as screening test for leprosy.
VL - 66
SN - 0254-9395
ER -