Incubation time of relapses after treatment of paucibacillary leprosy
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Treatment of paucibacillary leprosy patients with dapsone and rifampicin.
Dapsone resistance is found worldwide (1,2) and resistance to other available drugs such as clofazamine (3) and rifampicin (4) also occurs. It is known that paucibacillary leprosy patients harbour <106 bacilli (5). However, the treatment of paucibacillary leprosy is of long duration. It is psychologically undesirable for a symptom-free, paucibacillary patient to receive therapy for a long perio...
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In order to judge the value of therapeutic regimens in paucibacillary leprosy, knowledge of incubation time of relapses is essential, as this will define the length of time patients have to be followed up after treatment has been stopped. The prospective study of relapse includes paucibacillary cases of leprosy belonging to a non-lepromatous group consisting of tuberculoid, neuritic and indeter...
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OBJECTIVES To determine the magnitude of relapses in multibacillary leprosy patients after multi-drug therapy and to determine the factors influencing the relapse. DESIGN A retrospective study pertaining to multibacillary leprosy patients treated with MBMDT as per WHO guidelines was carried out. The study included 300 MB patients who had successfully completed treatment during 1986-2002, of w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Leprosy Review
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0305-7518
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19840014