TY - GEN AU - Rodríguez, Gerzaín AU - Pinto, Rafael AU - Laverde, Carlos AU - Sarmiento, Martha AU - Riveros, Angélica AU - Valderrama, Jessika AU - Ordóñez, Nelly PY - 2004 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10818/57847 AB - Leprosy relapses are mainly due to bacillary persistence and diamino-diphenyl-sulphone (DDS) monotherapy. Case histories were examined for 33 patients with lepromatous leprosy (LL), diagnosed 7-48 years before the relapse and treated only with DDS... AB - La persistencia de bacilos viables y la monoterapia con diamino-difenil-sulfona (DDS) son los principales factores que favorecen las recidivas de la lepra. Presentamos 33 pacientes con lepra lepromatosa (LL) diagnosticada 7 a 48 anos antes de la... LA - spa PB - Biomedica KW - Lepra multibacilar KW - Recaidas de la lepra KW - Multibacillary leprosy KW - Leprosy relapses TI - Post-treatment recurrences of multibacillary leprosy ER -