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KMID : 0386319830160010077
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Korean Leprosy Bulletin
1983 Volume.16 No. 1 p.77 ~ p.80
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Some Experimental Studies on the Fluorescent Leprosy Antibody Absorption (FLA-ABS) Test for Leprosy Patients and Household Contacts
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Do-Il Kim
Hae-Young Lee
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Abstract
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1. The results of FLA-ABS tests with the sera of leprosy patients were shown positive in all of the LL and BL and in half of the BT and TT. The distribution of the antibody titers showed a gradual decrease from the lepromatous to the tuberculoid end of the spectrum. 2. The FLA-ABS test was positive in 52 of 76 (68.4%) household contacts of leprosy patients. Among 40 of these household contacts who were tested with lepromin, 11 showed weakly positive Mitsuda reactions but were positive in the FLA-ABS test. With the careful observation every year, clinically suspected non-lepromatous leprosy cases from found from two of 11 cases with FLA-ABS positive and Lepromin weakly positive.
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