Skin test response to M. leprae precursor coccoid organisms in a high leprosy endemic area as compared to lepromin.
The paper describes the results on several hundred skin tests on humans using antigens from leprosy derived non-acid fast coccoid organisms, and a mycobacterium that grew out of one of the coccoid organisms. Early skin test response to the cytoplasmic fraction of one of the leprosy derived, non-acid fast, coccoid organism was very highly correlated with standard lepromin.
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007916:Lepromin / Q000276:immunology*; D007918:Leprosy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology*; D009166:Mycobacterium leprae / Q000276:immunology*; D012882:Skin Tests; D014374:Tuberculin Test
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D007916:Lepromin