Review Article

A New Diagnostic Way for Behcet's Disease: Skin Prick with Self-Saliva

Table 2

Self-salivary prick test in BD patients with or without HLA-B51.

Type of BD (Japanese classification) Patients (initials) Prick test (mm) HLA-B51
SSSCS

Complete type 23 M OO*10    + (B51)

Incomplete type 40 M HG 10 7+ (B51, 01, 01)
31 F MA 307+ (B51, 40)
42 F MK 74+ (B51, 46, DR4, 8)
34 F MY 26 5 − (B35, 48)
36 F AN*10 − (B44, 03, 01)
33 F YK 10
37 F AT*22− (B40, 48)
30 F MN*10
35 M YI 10nd− (B15, 35)
37 F HT 4 − (B40, 44)
36 M MK 4 3 − (B35, 44)
35 M KF 72− (B46, 54)
35 F YO 14− (B07, 02, 01)

F: female; M: male; S: self-saliva; SS: filtered sterilized saliva; CS: control saline; +: positive; −: negative; nd: not done. *Same cases in Table 1.