TY - JOUR KW - Drug Administration Schedule KW - Drug Therapy, Combination KW - Follow-Up Studies KW - Humans KW - Lepromin KW - leprosy KW - Recurrence KW - Rifampin KW - Sulfones AU - Avelleira J C AU - Marques A B AU - Viana F R AU - Andrade V L AB -

The efficaciousness evaluation of the polychemotherapics regimens recommended by WHO to the hansenian paucibacillary patients, is carried out mainly by the suitable follow up of patients after therapeutic discharge. The criterion for inclusion of patients as paucibacillary ones is another point of importance. The authors based on the follow up of 66 patients that completed treatment and in the absence of relapses until the moment, advise that together with the clinical classification it should be considered factors like: the Mitsuda test, the number of lesions and the bacilloscopy result.

BT - Hansenologia internationalis C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2562587?dopt=Abstract DA - 1989 Dec IS - 2 J2 - Hansenol Int LA - por N2 -

The efficaciousness evaluation of the polychemotherapics regimens recommended by WHO to the hansenian paucibacillary patients, is carried out mainly by the suitable follow up of patients after therapeutic discharge. The criterion for inclusion of patients as paucibacillary ones is another point of importance. The authors based on the follow up of 66 patients that completed treatment and in the absence of relapses until the moment, advise that together with the clinical classification it should be considered factors like: the Mitsuda test, the number of lesions and the bacilloscopy result.

PY - 1989 SP - 107 EP - 11 T2 - Hansenologia internationalis TI - [Efficacy of multidrug therapy in treatment of paucibacillary leprosy patients--preliminary results]. VL - 14 SN - 0100-3283 ER -