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Recently the detection rate of new patients of leprosy becomes low in Korea. Deformity is defined as any deviation from the normal appearance of any parts of the body. Deformity...
Among the many reported applications of the detection of antibodies to phenolic glycolipid-I (PGL-I) of Mycobacterium leprae, the use of seroprevalence as an indicator of the magnitude of the leprosy...
Lee SB, You EY, Kang TJ, Kim SK, Kim JP, Ko YH, Chae GT
KMID: 1516978
Korean Lepr Bull.
2003 Jul;36(1):3-9.
The emergence of multiple drug resistant Mycobacterium leprae has emphasized the need for early decision of effective antileprosy drug in the treatment for leprosy patients. Mutations in the genes associated...
Mycobacteria, which are highly successful pathogen, resist delivary to lysosomes and instead survive within a specialized vacuole, the mycobacterial phagosome. The bacteria survive intracellularly because they are able to actively...