TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Epitopes
KW - HLA Antigens
KW - Humans
KW - Japan
KW - leprosy
KW - Lymphocytes
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Phenotype
KW - Tuberculosis
AU - Takata H
AU - Sada M
AU - Ozawa S
AU - Sekiguchi S
AB - <p>A total of 60 leprosy patients, 28 of lepromatous and 32 of tuberculoid form, and 70 active tuberculosis patients was compared with a control of 184 for 34 HLA specificities. The most interesting finding was an increased frequency (10.0%) for HLA-B8 (corrected P = 0.062, relative risk = 20.3) in the leprosy patients as compared with the control group, despite the fact that the frequency of HLA-B8 was extremely low in Japanese. Furthermore, all leprosy patients with B8 had leprous member(s) in their family.</p>
BT - Tissue antigens
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/75590?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1978 Jan
DO - 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1978.tb01225.x
IS - 1
J2 - Tissue Antigens
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A total of 60 leprosy patients, 28 of lepromatous and 32 of tuberculoid form, and 70 active tuberculosis patients was compared with a control of 184 for 34 HLA specificities. The most interesting finding was an increased frequency (10.0%) for HLA-B8 (corrected P = 0.062, relative risk = 20.3) in the leprosy patients as compared with the control group, despite the fact that the frequency of HLA-B8 was extremely low in Japanese. Furthermore, all leprosy patients with B8 had leprous member(s) in their family.</p>
PY - 1978
SP - 61
EP - 4
T2 - Tissue antigens
TI - HLA and mycobacterial infection: increased frequency of B8 in Japanese leprosy.
VL - 11
SN - 0001-2815
ER -