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Rational design and evaluation of a multiepitope chimeric fusion protein with the potential for leprosy diagnosis.

Detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA from archaeological skeletal remains in Japan using whole genome amplification and polymerase chain reaction.

Mycobacterium leprae actively modulates the cytokine response in naive human monocytes.

Leprosy uveitis in the developing world.

Study of cytokine response against panel of purified Mycobacterium leprae antigens by using whole blood assay in subjects residing in a resettlement village of cured leprosy patients.

Use of anti-PGL-1 antibodies to monitor therapy regimes in leprosy patients.

IDEAL: in the footsteps of IMMLEP and THELEP.

The epidemiological behaviour of leprosy in Brazil.

VNTR typing studies of Mycobacterium leprae in China: assessment of methods and stability of markers during treatment.

VNTR typing of Mycobacterium leprae in South Indian leprosy patients.

The use of GIS in leprosy control.

Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium leprae: a solid beginning.

Genetic diversity of mycobacterium leprae isolates from Brazilian leprosy patients.

Various genotypes of Mycobacterium leprae from Mexico reveal distinct geographic distribution.

Molecular epidemiology of leprosy based on VNTR typing in Thailand.

A continuation: study and characterisation of Mycobacterium leprae short tandem repeat genotypes and transmission of leprosy in Cebu, Philippines.

Characterisation of short tandem repeats for genotyping Mycobacterium leprae.

Identification and comparison of Mycobacterium leprae genotypes in two geographical regions of Colombia.

Drug resistance in leprosy: reports from selected endemic countries.

Rapid killing of M. leprae by moxifloxacin in two patients with lepromatous leprosy.