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
| S | SS | CS |
| Complete type | 23 M OO* | 10 | — | − | + (B51) |
| Incomplete type | 40 M HG | 10 | 7 | − | + (B51, 01, 01) | 31 F MA | 30 | 7 | − | + (B51, 40) | 42 F MK | 7 | 4 | − | + (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 | 10 | nd | − | − (B15, 35) | 37 F HT | 4 | − | − | − (B40, 44) | 36 M MK | 4 | 3 | − | − (B35, 44) | 35 M KF | 7 | 2 | − | − (B46, 54) | 35 F YO | 14 | − | − | − (B07, 02, 01) |
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F: female; M: male; S: self-saliva; SS: filtered sterilized saliva; CS: control saline; +: positive; −: negative; nd: not done. *Same cases in Table 1.
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