@article{10994,
  keywords = {Autoantibodies, Autoimmune Diseases, Diagnosis, Differential, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Humans, Immunoglobulin G, leprosy, Skin},
  author = {Azulay R D},
  title = {Autoaggressive hanseniasis.},
  abstract = {<p>I have given the name autoaggressive hanseniasis to a syndrome with immunopathologic and clinical pictures resembling autoaggressive systemic diseases observed in some cases of lepromatous and borderline hanseniasis. It is probably caused by B cell stimulation by antigenic complex of Mycobacterium leprae plus autologous tissue, along with a dysfunction of the T-suppressor lymphocytes.</p>},
  year = {1987},
  journal = {Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology},
  volume = {17},
  pages = {1042-6},
  month = {1987 Dec},
  issn = {0190-9622},
  doi = {10.1016/s0190-9622(87)70295-3},
  language = {eng},
}