[Stefansky's serodiagnosis and ulcerative and mutilating acropathy (author's transl)].
Systematic Stefansky's serodiagnostic test in the course of ulcero-mutilating acropathia reveals a frequent positivity (25/30 patients). Superinfection by atypical Mycobacterium of telluric extraction is considered. A delayed hypersensibility to several Mycobacterium antigens is proved to Mycobacterium kansasii, johnei, balnei. Perhaps, the same type of infection might exist in the course of chronic leg ulcers.
D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000382:microbiology*; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*; D009170:Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012698:Serologic Tests / Q000379:methods
Séro-diagnostic de stefansky et acropathies ulcéro-mutilantes.