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Leprosy
Study results from A. Geluk and colleagues update understanding of leprosy
May 6th, 2009
"The detection of hundreds of thousands of new cases of leprosy every year suggests that transmission of Mycobacterium leprae infection still continues. Unfortunately, tools for identification of asymptomatic disease and/or early-stage M. leprae infection (likely sources of transmission) are lacking," scientists writing in the journal Clinical and Vaccine Immunology report. "The recent identification of M. leprae-unique genes has allowed the analysis of human T-cell responses to novel M. leprae antigens. Antigens with the most-promising diagnostic potential were tested for their ability to induce cytokine secretion by using peripheral blood mononuclear cells from...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-06)
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