Slit-Skin Smear Microscopy (Ziehl–Neelsen)
Direct enumeration of acid-fast bacilli in Ziehl–Neelsen-stained dermal smears, yielding the Ridley logarithmic bacterial index used for operational classification and for monitoring bacillary clearance during multidrug therapy.
- Technology
- Microscopy & Histopathology · Direct microscopy
- What it measures
- Acid-fast bacilli (bacterial index)
- Developer
- In-house and national programmes
- Specimen
- Slit-skin smear
- Development status
- FDA/CE/WHO endorsed
- Regulatory status
- National approval
- Intended use
- Operational classification and monitoring of bacillary clearance during multidrug therapy
- Main limitation
- Insensitive in paucibacillary disease and cannot tell M. leprae from other mycobacteria.
- Linked publications
- 837
- TPP-1, confirming leprosy
- 40.5 of 100, partial alignment
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