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Tuberculoid relapse in lepromatous leprosy.
TUBERCULOID RELAPSE IN LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY Sir, Waters & Ridley ' recently reported 6 patients who had been lepromatous and who, after many years of chemotherapy and bacteriological negativity, were found on relapse to have upgraded to borderline-tuberculoid (BT) leprosy . In a related article,2 they reported the development of weakly posi tive lepromin reactions in some lepromatous patients tr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Leprosy Review
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0305-7518
DOI: 10.5935/0305-7518.19710005