Estudo comparativo da lepromino-reação praticada em estudantes de medicina e em grupo controle

• Autor(a) principal: PROENÇA, Nelson Guimarães
• Data de Publicação: 1982
• Outros Autores: FARIAS, Lúcia Rosário, KLIEMANN, Teresa A. E., MARTINEZ, Ednir W., KARAZAWA, Edna, GUEDES, Marilda, MIMICA, Igor
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hansenologia Internationalis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/hansenologia/article/view/36127
• topic: Reação de Mitsuda; Reação de Fernandez; Mitsuda reaction; Fernandez reaction

The lepromin test was studied in 64 medical students and in a control group consisted of 40 patients from the orthopedical clinic. Both groups matched with respect to age and sex, but differed with regard to socio-economical conditions. The Fernandez reaction showed low frequency of positive results in both groups:10% in the first group and 5,6% in the second one. This difference was not significant. The Mitsuda reaction showed high frequency of positive results: 98,4% in the medical students and 85,0% in the control group. This difference was significant. The authors discuss the factors that might have caused the high positivity of the lepromin test among the medical students.