Journal of Immunology and Immunopathology

UGC CARE (Group 1)
  • Year: 2004
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: supp1

Detection of Mycobacterium leprae infection: some new approaches

  • Author:
  • O.m. Parkash, H.B. Singh, S Rai, A Pandey, M Sachdev, S Kapoor, T Singhal, G Gupta, V.M. Katoch, B.K. Girdhar
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 13 to 15

Central JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases (ICMR), Tajganj, Agra-1.

*Corresponding Author

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Abstract

At this juncture, the existing laboratory diagnostic assays are not efficient enough to detect 100% cases of leprosy. With the view to find some better tool(s) we have carried out several investigations employing various specimens (including blood, urine and skin scrapes) from leprosy patients and healthy individuals. In these efforts we have got some encouraging indicative results. All these findings opens up several new areas which needs further exploration.

Keywords

Leprosy, Diagnosis, PCR, Specimen, Antibody, Antigen