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    Increased Serum Circulatory Levels of Interleukin 17F in Type 1 Reactions of Leprosy

    Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae affecting mainly skin and peripheral nerves. Acute inflammatory episodes in the borderline immunological spectrum of the disease cause severe...

    Sundeep Chaitanya, Mallika Lavania, Ravindra P. Turankar… in Journal of Clinical Immunology (2012)

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    Serodiagnostic tests for leprosy

    All of the specific serodiagnostic tests developed by now only are able to detect advanced stages of the disease. None of these tests can efficiently diagnose leprosy at a ver, early stage of the disease inclu...

    U. Sengupta in Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry (1997)

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    Efforts in diagnosing early leprosy using serological techniques

    Skin scra**s obtained from the lesions of leprosy patients of all types showed 96 % positivity to the serum antibody competition test using monoclonal antibody (ML04)to 35 kDa antigen of Mycobacterium leprae. ...

    Om Parkash, M. K. Beuria, B. K. Girdhar, K. Katoch, U. Sengupta in Journal of Biosciences (1997)

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    Coupling of proteins to liposomes and their role in understanding delayed type of hypersensitivity in human and mice

    Liposome-coupled lepromin was found to elicit a 3-week skin reaction in leprosy patients similar to that elicited by wholeMycobacterium leprae. The present study suggests that the presentation of antigens in a sp...

    U. Sengupta, Sudhir Sinha, V. Chaturvedi, R. B. Narayanan… in Journal of Biosciences (1990)

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    Serological Survey of Leprosy Using a Monoclonal Antibody-Based Immunoassay and Phenolic Glycolipid ELISA

    The present global estimate of leprosy patients is 11.5 million (21), one- fourth of whom live in India (6). The spread of infection can be arrested effectively by diagnosis and treatment of infectious subject...

    U. Sengupta, Sudhir Sinha, S. A. Patil, B. K. Girdhar, G. Ramu in Progress in Vaccinology (1989)