@article{11878,
  keywords = {Fatty Acids, Essential, Female, Humans, leprosy, Male, Mycobacterium leprae, Phospholipids},
  author = {Wright S},
  title = {Essential fatty acids in the plasma phospholipids of patients with leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>Plasma phospholipid essential fatty acids were investigated in 40 patients with leprosy and 40 controls. A significant reduction in linoleic acid was found in the leprosy patients, with an increase in its metabolite dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid. No difference was found between patients with multibacillary and paucibacillary leprosy. Patients treated for less than 6 months were found to have low levels of linoleic acid and high levels of dihomo-gamma-linolenic and arachidonic acid compared with patients treated for more than 6 months.</p>},
  year = {1985},
  journal = {The British journal of dermatology},
  volume = {112},
  pages = {673-7},
  month = {1985 Jun},
  issn = {0007-0963},
  doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2133.1985.tb02335.x},
  language = {eng},
}