Humoral and Cellular Immune Reactivity to Recombinant M. leprae Antigens in HLA-Typed Leprosy Patients and Healthy Controls

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 178-189

  Klatser, Paul R ^a   Janson, Anneke M ^b   Thole, Jelle E R ^b,d   Buhrer, Samira ^a   Bos, Corinne ^b   Soebono, Hardyanto ^c   De Vries, Rene R P ^b  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIVISION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEPROSY; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030763916     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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