Z N Oliveira, R C Leão, L C Cucé
We have evaluated clinical and laboratorial effects of immunostimulation scarification with antigen of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis in patients with paracoccidioidomycosis, who often show depressed immunity. We have studied 62 Brazilian patients with paracoccidioidomycosis, 46 with active disease and 16 cured, in a 10-year period between 1982 and 1992. Among the 46 patients with active disease: 10 had acute form, 12 chronic unifocal form and 24 the chronic multifocal form of the disease; 16 showed positive paracoccidioidin intradermal reaction and 30 negative reaction...
May 1996: Allergologia et Immunopathologia