Relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of Hansen's disease in patients with reactions

Leprosy can be classified according to its operational form as paucibacillary or multibacillary. Bacilloscopy integrates its diagnostic armamentarium. Patients with the disease may present leprosy reactions. This study describes the association of bacilloscopy results and the type of operational cla...

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Autores principales: dos Santos, Marcel Alex Soares, Mercadante, Larissa Mondadori, Pegas, Elisangela Samartin, Kadunc, Bogdana Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2018
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29924247
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20186725
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author dos Santos, Marcel Alex Soares
Mercadante, Larissa Mondadori
Pegas, Elisangela Samartin
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description Leprosy can be classified according to its operational form as paucibacillary or multibacillary. Bacilloscopy integrates its diagnostic armamentarium. Patients with the disease may present leprosy reactions. This study describes the association of bacilloscopy results and the type of operational classification of leprosy in patients with leprosy reactions. Medical records were analyzed at a reference center between 2010 and 2015. Reactions occurred in almost half of the patients, making their identification important. The bacilloscopic and operational characterization indicates a greater occurrence of leprosy reactions in patients with positive bacilloscopy and also in multibacillary.
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spelling pubmed-60011072018-06-19 Relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of Hansen's disease in patients with reactions dos Santos, Marcel Alex Soares Mercadante, Larissa Mondadori Pegas, Elisangela Samartin Kadunc, Bogdana Victoria An Bras Dermatol Communication Leprosy can be classified according to its operational form as paucibacillary or multibacillary. Bacilloscopy integrates its diagnostic armamentarium. Patients with the disease may present leprosy reactions. This study describes the association of bacilloscopy results and the type of operational classification of leprosy in patients with leprosy reactions. Medical records were analyzed at a reference center between 2010 and 2015. Reactions occurred in almost half of the patients, making their identification important. The bacilloscopic and operational characterization indicates a greater occurrence of leprosy reactions in patients with positive bacilloscopy and also in multibacillary. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6001107/ /pubmed/29924247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20186725 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited and the work is not changed in any way.
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title Relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of Hansen's disease in patients with reactions
title_full Relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of Hansen's disease in patients with reactions
title_fullStr Relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of Hansen's disease in patients with reactions
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of Hansen's disease in patients with reactions
title_short Relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of Hansen's disease in patients with reactions
title_sort relationship between bacilloscopy and operational classification of hansen's disease in patients with reactions
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