Role of Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Diagnosis of Early Leprosy

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 461-464

  Job, Charles K ^a   Jayakumar, Joseph ^a   Williams, Diana L ^b   Gillis, Thomas P ^b  

^a Leprosy Center   (India)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LEPROSY; MALE; PATCH TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN BIOPSY; STAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN;

EID: 0031406308     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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