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  • Title: Suppression of delayed hypersensitivity skin reactions to tuberculin by M. leprae antigens in patients with lepromatous and tuberculoid leprosy.
    Author: Sengupta U, Sinha S, Ramu G, Lamb J, Ivanyi J.
    Journal: Clin Exp Immunol; 1987 Apr; 68(1):58-64. PubMed ID: 3308210.
    Abstract:
    Delayed hypersensitivity skin reactions to tuberculin when injected alone or in mixture with antigens of M. leprae were examined in leprosy patients and in healthy controls. The tuberculin reaction was significantly inhibited in more than one half of both LL and BT patients by the soluble extract of M. leprae (leprosin), the leprosin derived 12 kD protein or leprosin depleted of the 12 kD antigen. However, suppression was not found in healthy controls from a leprosy endemic region. These results suggest that multiple M. leprae-specific antigens have an immunoregulatory function. Since suppression was demonstrable not only in LL (leprosin-anergic), but also in BT (leprosin-responder) patients it is of interest that the 'mixed' skin test can discriminate the immune status of at least certain BT patients from that of the infected but self-healing healthy controls. Corollary lymphocyte cultures failed to show any suppression by leprosing of the lymphoproliferative responses to tuberculin.
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