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Reading of the Mitsuda test: comparison between diameter and total area by mean...
Alecrim, Edilamar Silva de; Chaves, Ana Thereza; Pôrto, Luiz Alberto Bomjardim; Grossi, Maria Aparecida de Faria; Lyon, SandraThe Mitsuda test is a skin test based on the individual’s immune response through late and highly specific hypersensitivity reaction to the Mycobacterium leprae bacillus. A negative reaction identifies individuals who present a higher risk of becoming ill if exposed to M. leprae and, if they become ill, to develop the virchowian form of disease. The Mitsuda test reading is performed by means of a millimeter rul...
Risk factors for physical disability upon release from multidrug therapy in new...
Assis, Bárbara Proença Nardi; Lyon, Sandra; Grossi, Maria Aparecida de Faria; Rocha, Manoel Otávio da CostaThe present study sought to investigate the risk factors for physical disability upon release from multidrug therapy (MDT) in new cases of leprosy, registered at a referral center in Brazil. This is a longitudinal and retrospective study that evaluated 260 patients. Multivariate analyses, using both the ordinal logistic regression, as well as the classification and regression tree (CART) algorithm were performe...
Hansen's disease : a vanishing disease?
Talhari, Sinésio; Grossi, Maria Aparecida de Faria; Oliveira, Maria Leide W. D. R. de; Gontijo, Bernardo; Talhari, Carolina; Penna, Gerson OliveiraThe introduction, implementation, successes and failures of multidrug therapy (MDT) in all Hansen's disease endemic countries are discussed in this paper. The high efficacy of leprosy treatment with MDT and the global reduction of prevalence led the World Health Organization, in 1991, to establish the goal of elimination of Hansen's disease (less than 1 patient per 10,000 inhabitants) to be accomplished by the ...