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Associations between HLA-DRB1 alleles and leprosy in an Indonesian population.
International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association - 1 Jun 1997
Soebono H, Giphart M J, Schreuder G M, Klatser P R, de Vries R R
Abstract excerpt
To investigate whether the susceptibility to leprosy (type), subclinical infection with Mycobacterium leprae and the antibody response against M. leprae-specific antigens are associated with HLA-DR phenotypes sequence-specific oligonucleotide HLA-DRB1 and DQA1 typing and antibody assays have been performed in 79 leprosy patients (41 TT/BT and 38 LL/BL) and 50 healthy controls from a Javanese population in...
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