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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)