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Online ISSN : 2185-1352
Print ISSN : 0024-1008
ISSN-L : 0024-1008
CLINICAL STUDIES ON THE PULMONALY TUBERCULOSIS COMPLICATED WITH LEPROSY (Report 3)
The Relation between Leprosy and Tuberculosis Observed from the Results of Mass Examination on Tuberculosis
Yoshiko WATANABE
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1960 Volume 29 Issue 5-6 Pages 209-213

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On the same subjects mentioned in Report 2, the author compared the prevalence of tubercu losis by the type of leprosy, and obtained the following results. Prevalence of both tuberculous findings and active or inactive cases were slightly higher among lepromatous type than in tuberculoid type, however, the difference was statistically not significant. Observing by the type and grade of tuberculosis, distribution of two types of leprosy were nearly equal among any type or grade of tuberculosis. The results show that there is no significant correlation between the type of leprosy and tuberculosis.

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