@article{15292,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Cytotoxicity, Immunologic, Erythema Nodosum, Humans, leprosy, Lymphocyte Activation, Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed, Middle Aged, T-Lymphocytes},
  author = {Stach J L and Strobel M and Fumoux F and Bach J F},
  title = {Defect in the generation of cytotoxic T cells in lepromatous leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>Cytotoxic T cells are consistently produced in normal individuals after in vitro stimulation by a pool of mitomycin-treated normal lymphocytes. Patients suffering from lepromatous leprosy (LL), presenting with large amounts of Mycobacterium leprae and without a history of erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) are unable to generate such cytotoxic T cells, while lepromatous patients with ENL which, in the present study were all deprived of M. leprae, react normally.</p>},
  year = {1982},
  journal = {Clinical and experimental immunology},
  volume = {48},
  pages = {633-40},
  month = {1982 Jun},
  issn = {0009-9104},
  language = {eng},
}