A comparative study on the Mitsuda type response to antigens of chemoautotrophic nocardioform bacteria and to standard lepromin in leprosy patients

Acta Leprologica

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 105-112

  Chakrabarty, A N ^a,d   Dastidar, S G ^b   Chandra, A K ^a   Mukherjee, M ^a   Chaudhuri, S K ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

^d NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Anergy; Chemoautotrophic nocardiform bacteria; Lepromin; Leprosy; Mitsuda responses

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; LEPROMIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHILD; CLONAL ANERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ARMADILLOS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LEPROMIN; LEPROSY; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 0032727967     PISSN: 00015938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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