The lepromin skin test is used to determine what type of leprosy a person is infected with. It involves the injection of a standardized extract of the inactivated "leprosy bacillus" (Mycobacterium leprae or "Hansen's bacillus") under the skin. It is not recommended as a primary mode of diagnosis.[1]
^"Leprosy". The Lecturio Medical Concept Library. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
The lepromin skin test is used to determine what type of leprosy a person is infected with. It involves the injection of a standardized extract of the...
reaction Frei test Hair perforation test Kveim test Leishmanin skin test Lepromin Patch test Schick test Skin allergy test Sweat diagnostics Sweat test Tine...
test for lepromin. Within these two extremes are the patients with an intermediate or borderline form of leprosy who show a variable lepromin reaction...
reaction is a reaction that occurs to signal a positive result in the lepromin skin test for leprosy. The reaction occurs in the skin at the site of injection...
1941–42 and later standardized in 1979 by Sangupta et al. Dharmendra's Lepromin suspension consists of 10 mg of the dried and de-fatted, bacillary powder...
The axis of classification is the degree of Lepromin reaction. Kensuke Mitsuda first reported the lepromin reaction in 1919, which is usually called the...
and led to the 1953 leprosy prevention law. As a scholar, he found a lepromin reaction called Mitsuda reaction or Mitsuda test. This is very important...
that Kensuke Mitsuda had studied and described the “Mitsuda reaction” (Lepromin reaction), he lobbied for the publication of an international journal....
researcher Kensuke Mitsuda receives credit for first developing the modern lepromin test for distinguishing between different forms of Hansen's disease, Bargehr's...
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