Article
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...
Topics
- Alleles
- Antigens, Bacterial
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DR Antigens
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate
- Indonesia
- Leprosy
- Leprosy, Borderline
- Leprosy, Lepromatous
- Leprosy, Tuberculoid
- Mycobacterium leprae
- Odds Ratio
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA