Mycobacterium leprae

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Synonyms for Mycobacterium leprae

cause of leprosy

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Los valores promedio de anticuerpos tendieron a disminuir con las proteinas de 10 y 36 kDa de M.leprae; con la proteina de 30 kDa se observo un incremento de los niveles de anticuerpos con una caida muy lenta en el tiempo de tratamiento (dato no mostrado).
PCR based gene amplification was done using primers according to the guidelines of WHO 'Global Surveillance of Drug Resistance in Leprosy 2008 'for detection of mutations in the rpoB, gyrA and folPlgenes in the M.leprae genome.
leprae in 100/209 cases (47%) that were mostly smear negative and had less than 1 x [10.sup.4] M.leprae per ml of tissue (0.1 g) homogenate.