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| Id: | 16950
| | Author: | Castro, Norberto Olmos; Bonatti, Angel A. | | Title: | Contribution to the study of the serology of leprosy.
| | Source: | Int. J. Lepr;19(3):309-321, July-Sept. 1951. tab, graf.
| | Abstract: | The authors have reviewed a series of investigations, designed to demonstrate specific changes in leprosy sera, which they have carried out since 1943. To that end they have employed a lipid extract of leproma tissues as the antigen of microflocculation and complement fixation tests. For its simplicity and ease the former is preferred. Two techniques of that test have been used, called the qualitative or diagnostic reaction and the quantitative or desimetric reaction. The diagnostic test is thus designated because it possesses the requisites of diagnostic sensibility; it is used for diagnostic purposes. The quantitative technique is employed for the interpretation of the clinical form and the state of the infection. A pathogenic interpretation of the serological phenomena observed is given, and the microreaction used is described as one of the specific heterophile reaction type. It is believed that serology may be of value as a decisive factor in the granting of conditional parole to lepromatous leprosy patients. (AU).
| | Descriptors: | HANSENIASE
HANSENIASE/clas
HANSENIASE/etiol
SEROLOGIA/clas
| | Electronic Medium: | http://www.ilsl.br
| | Location: | BR191.1 |
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