IMMUNOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF FOOT-PAD ISOLATES AS MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE BY LEPROMIN REACTIVITY IN LEPROSY PATIENTS

Lepromin, a product containing Mycobacterium leprae from patients' tissues, fails to elicit skin reactions in lepromatous patients; this non-reactivity was utilized as a means of identifying the mycobacterium isolated in mouse foot-pads from leprosy patients. To do this a suspension of acid-fas...

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Autores principales: Shepard, Charles C., Guinto, R. S.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1963
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2137715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14074384

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2137715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14074384

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