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Prueba de lepromina cutánea - Results

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Examen o prueba cutánea para lepra

Valores normales:

Las personas que no tienen lepra tendrán poca o ninguna reacción de la piel al antígeno. Los pacientes con un tipo particular de lepra, llamado lepra lepromatosa, no tendrán ninguna reacción de la piel al antígeno.

Significado de los resultados anormales:

Una reacción positiva de la piel se puede observar en pacientes con lepra tuberculoide y lepra dimorfa tuberculoide. Los pacientes con lepra lepromatosa no tendrán una reacción cutánea positiva.

Inyección de antígeno

Reviewed last on: 8/24/2011
Linda Vorvick, MD, Medical Director, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, University of Washington School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

Referencias

Renault CA, Ernst JD. Mycobacterium leprae. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 251.

Kumar B, Dogra S. The infectious diseases. In: Bope ET, Rakel RE, Kellerman R, eds. Conn's Current Therapy 2011. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:section 2.

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