The infectivity of drug resistant cases.
The present study shows that leprosy bacilli resistant to dapsone, multiply in mouse foot-pad as equally as the dapsone sensitive bacilli would multiply suggesting that the dapsone resistant case will be as infective as the dapsone sensitive case.
D000818:Animals; D003622:Dapsone / Q000494:pharmacology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D007917:Leprostatic Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D051379:Mice; D009166:Mycobacterium leprae / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity
D007917:Leprostatic Agents; D003622:Dapsone