@article{17202,
  keywords = {Animals, Dapsone, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Drug Therapy, Combination, Humans, leprosy, Mice, Rifampin},
  author = {Girdhar B K and Desikan K V},
  title = {Persister M. leprae after introductory rifampicin followed by dapsone therapy.},
  abstract = {<p>Lepromatous patients of "Introductory Rifampicin therapy' (Lepr. India, 50: 1978) who received 300 mg Rifampicin daily for 3 months followed by 50-100 mg DDS daily for another 21 months are investigated for persisters in the skin. Mouse foot pad results revealed that at the end of 2 years of treatment viable M. leprae are still persisting in 3 out of 6 patients.</p>},
  year = {1981},
  journal = {Leprosy in India},
  volume = {53},
  pages = {350-3},
  month = {1981 Jul},
  issn = {0024-1024},
  language = {eng},
}