Leprosy and cell-mediated immunity
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Gilla Kaplan; Zanvil A. Cohn
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Article
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1991
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The intradermal injection of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin into lepromatous leprosy patients leads to a local cell-mediated immune response and to the extensive destruction of Mycobacterium leprae. This local response also occurs after intradermal injection of recombinant human inter