Advances in leprosy immunology and the field application: A gap to bridge

Advances concerning the hosts’ immune response to Mycobacterium leprae infection have focused on elucidating the immune pathomechanisms involved, with the hope that predictive diagnostic and prognostic parameters (biomarkers) for field use would emerge; however, improvements in our understanding of the immunologic responses to this complex disease have, to date, somewhat failed to provide the effective and robust methods for improving its predictive diagnosis in the field situation, particularly in those patients suffering from paucibacillary disease.

Source: Clinics in Dermatology - January 1, 2016 Category: Dermatology Authors: Vania Nieto Brito de Souza, Anand M. Iyer, David A. Lammas, Ben Naafs, Pranab Kumar Das Source Type: research