… antibodies frompatients with leprosy but, more importantly, elicits T-lymphocyteresponses
from patients with leprosy that parallel their responses to whole M. Ieprae organisms. …

… antigens from Mycobacterium leprae for leprosy diagnosis. We … of leprosy (PADL), recombinant
culture filtrate protein-10 (rCFP-… leprae infection and the identification of leprosy patients. …

… Leprosy is a disabling and stigmatizing disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium
leprae. The … leprae antigens, whole blood of BT leprosy patients was stimulated for 24 h with …

… diagnosis based on antibody … of diagnosis. Using serological expression cloning with a
serum pool of untreated lepromatous leprosy (LL) patients, we identified 14 strongly reactive M. …

… the diagnosis of paucibacillary (PB) leprosy, we evaluated a prototype in-tube WBA using
combinations of Mycobacterium leprae … , PB leprosy patients are negative in antibody detection …

… of Mycobacterium leprae, as evidenced by stable leprosy incidence … , the development
of tools for the early diagnosis of M. … and culture filtrate protein 10. J Infect Dis 181: 1850-1854. …

… -PGL-I antibodies was tested using M. leprae-stimulated blood of leprosy patients and endemic
controls (… Recently, IFN-γ induced protein 10 (IP-10) was found useful for detection of M. …

… Such tools for early diagnosis of M. leprae infection would facilitate informed decision …
have an increased risk to develop leprosy (eg contacts of leprosy patients). Consequently, such …

… Mycobacterium leprae, the etiologic agent of leprosy, has undergone a reductive … We
first investigated whether our candidates generated antibody responses in leprosy patients by …

… MLP) that are restricted to Mycobacterium leprae, or of limited … of a useful test for detecting
infection by the leprosy bacillus, … -6 kDa) and CFP-10 (culture filtrate protein-10) [13], [14], …