TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Child
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Female
KW - Housing
KW - Humans
KW - Infant
KW - Lepromin
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Skin
AU - Bhatia V N
AU - Dhandayuthapani S
AU - Ananthan D
AU - Rajendran M
AU - Vasanth B
AU - Jayasingh K
AU - Kumar C H
AB - <p>870 household contacts of leprosy patients were examined for sub-clinical infection with M. leprae by smear (skin and nasal), lepromin and FLA-ABS tests. 0.6%, 3.3%, 71.5% and 14.4% of the contacts were found to be positive for skin smear, nasal smear, lepromin and FLA-ABS tests respectively. An analysis of the results revealed that 4% of the lepromin positive contacts and 3.6% of the lepromin negative contacts were positive to both FLA-ABS and skin or nasal smear.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2262713?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1990 Jul-Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>870 household contacts of leprosy patients were examined for sub-clinical infection with M. leprae by smear (skin and nasal), lepromin and FLA-ABS tests. 0.6%, 3.3%, 71.5% and 14.4% of the contacts were found to be positive for skin smear, nasal smear, lepromin and FLA-ABS tests respectively. An analysis of the results revealed that 4% of the lepromin positive contacts and 3.6% of the lepromin negative contacts were positive to both FLA-ABS and skin or nasal smear.</p>
PY - 1990
SP - 296
EP - 304
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Sub-clinical infection with Mycobacterium leprae in household contacts of leprosy.
VL - 62
SN - 0254-9395
ER -