@article{10435,
  keywords = {Antigen-Presenting Cells, Antigens, Bacterial, Antigens, Viral, Herpesvirus 4, Human, Humans, Interferon-gamma, leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae},
  author = {Lindh J and Anderson U and Britton S and De Ley M},
  title = {A single cell assay for the study of gamma-interferon formation in leprosy patients.},
  abstract = {<p>The number of gamma-interferon producing cells in the peripheral blood of leprosy (LL and BT) patients and controls was studied by the reversed protein A plaque assay before and after exposure in vitro to Mycobacterium leprae bacilli and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The level of spontaneous gamma-interferon production was significantly higher in BT patients compared to LL patients and controls. Mycobacterium leprae induced a specific gamma-interferon response in lymphocytes from BT patients and from healthy contacts whereas in LL patients and non-exposed controls the response was low or non-existing. There were no significant differences in the gamma-interferon response to EBV between the above groups.</p>},
  year = {1987},
  journal = {Clinical and experimental immunology},
  volume = {67},
  pages = {51-4},
  month = {1987 Jan},
  issn = {0009-9104},
  url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1542566/pdf/clinexpimmunol00112-0060.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}