Studies on serum proteins in leprosy the alpha, beta and gamma globulin fractions

ABSTRACT

Serum specimens from 234 cases of leprosy, representing the various types and stages of activity of the disease, were examined for the total serum protein, albumin, total globulin, alpha, beta and gamma globulin fractions. Specimens from 29 employees used as controls were similarly examined. The findings in the patients with respect to the globulin fractions are correlated with the results of the thymol turbidity and cephalin-cholesterol flocculation tests. Of the 234 cases, 118, or 50.4 per cent, showed an increased in one or more of the serum globulin fractions; 27 showed and increase in the alpha globulin, 28 in the beta globulin, 63 in the gamma globulin fraction...