@article{16225,
  keywords = {Erythrocytes, Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase, Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency, Humans, Isoenzymes, leprosy, Phenotype},
  author = {Saoji A M and Kelkar S S},
  title = {Erythrocyte glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase isoenzyme phenotypes in leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>Hemolysates from 50 cases of leprosy and five controls were studied for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) isoenzyme phenotypes by polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis using a miniaturized system. The cases were classified as lepromatous (24), borderline lepromatous (5), borderline tuberculoid (5), and tuberculoid (16) according to the Ridley-Jopling scale. All had been on treatment with dapsone for between two and 12 years. None of the cases showed deficiency of erythrocyte G-6-PD. All the cases and the controls showed the G-6-PD phenotype to be of the B+ variety. Therefore this genetic marker does not appear to be related to susceptibility to leprosy or to the clinical variety of the disease in our situation.</p>
},
  year = {1983},
  journal = {International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association},
  volume = {51},
  pages = {41-4},
  month = {1983 Mar},
  issn = {0148-916X},
  url = {http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v51n1a07.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}