METHOD OF DIAGNOSIS OF LEPROUS PROCESS ACTIVITY Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to laboratory methods of investigation and can be used, in part, for diagnosis of leprous process activity. Method involves analysis of serum blood by preparing a mixture of 0.1 ml of serum blood with 0.02 ml of lepronin or leprosin and its incubation for 60 min at the room temperature followed by applying the mixture on slide as drops of 20 mcl of native serum blood as a control and 20 mcl of a mixture and the following their drying at the room temperature. Then comparative microscopy of samples is carried out and active leprous process is diagnosed in the presence of pathological structures of triangular form in native serum sample and their absence in the mixture sample. Proposed method is recommended to carry out in clinical-diagnostic laboratory of any curative- prophylactic institute. EFFECT: improved method of diagnosis. 2 dwg