TY - JOUR KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Clinical Trials as Topic KW - Dapsone KW - Female KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Rifampin AU - Ghosh S AU - Hazra S K AU - Kundu S AU - Choudhury S AB -

Rusults of treatment with Rifampicin in ten untreated and uncomplicated cases of active lepromatous leprosy are compared with those of D.D.S. in a similar number of cases. Though clinical improvement was similar in both the groups, improvement in B.I. and M.I. appears to be better in the latter group. High price of Rifampicin is its greatest drawback at present.

BT - Leprosy in India C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/800236?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1976 Oct IS - 4 Suppl J2 - Lepr India LA - eng N2 -

Rusults of treatment with Rifampicin in ten untreated and uncomplicated cases of active lepromatous leprosy are compared with those of D.D.S. in a similar number of cases. Though clinical improvement was similar in both the groups, improvement in B.I. and M.I. appears to be better in the latter group. High price of Rifampicin is its greatest drawback at present.

PY - 1976 SP - 775 EP - 80 T2 - Leprosy in India TI - Clinical trial with rifampicin in the treatment of leprosy. VL - 48 SN - 0024-1024 ER -