Interferon-gamma responses to candidate leprosy skin-test reagents detect exposure to leprosy in an endemic population

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-48

  Manandhar, Rakesh ^a   LeMaster, Joseph W ^a   Butlin, C Ruth ^a   Brennan, Patrick J ^b   Roche, Paul W ^a  

^a Anandaban Leprosy Hospital   (Nepal)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; SKIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHILD; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INTERFERON TYPE II; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEPAL; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 0034028544     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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