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Serum samples from 3336 contacts of leprosy patients were tested for antiphenolic glycolipid I antibodies by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay with the albumin coupled synthetic disaccharide antigen. The overall positivity rate was 9.3%. No significant differences were seen between a group of household contacts of lepromatous patients and those of the other types of the disease. The proportion of ELISA positives was slightly higher in the relatives as compared to workplace contacts and neighbours but significantly different only between the two former (p less than 0.05). Among those contacts with absorbance values higher than 0.100, 5 new leprosy patients were diagnosed, 2 of them with positive skin smears. A sixth contact was detected with a very high absorbance value in whom no single skin lesion was found but whose lepromin reaction was 0 mm and the skin smear showed a bacteriological index of 3+.
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