TY - JOUR
KW - Ampicillin
KW - Anti-Bacterial Agents
KW - Drug Resistance, Multiple
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Humans
KW - Leprosy, lepromatous
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Penicillins
KW - Sulbactam
AU - Mehta V R
AB - <p>A 50 year male developed a discoid lesion of leprosy on the face. Inspite of Dapsone 100 mg/day and Rifampicin 600 mgm per day the disease spread to both sides of the face and forehead. It became worse with Prednisolone and Clofazimine. It cleared completely when Sultamicillin was added to the latter. This seems to be the first patient of leprosy to be treated with this combination and reported.</p>
BT - Indian journal of medical sciences
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9141351?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1996 Nov
IS - 11
J2 - Indian J Med Sci
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A 50 year male developed a discoid lesion of leprosy on the face. Inspite of Dapsone 100 mg/day and Rifampicin 600 mgm per day the disease spread to both sides of the face and forehead. It became worse with Prednisolone and Clofazimine. It cleared completely when Sultamicillin was added to the latter. This seems to be the first patient of leprosy to be treated with this combination and reported.</p>
PY - 1996
SP - 305
EP - 7
T2 - Indian journal of medical sciences
TI - Leprosy resistant to multi-drug-therapy (MDT) successfully treated with ampicillin-sulbactam combination--(a case report).
VL - 50
SN - 0019-5359
ER -