Comparison of single cell RNA sequencing in leprosy lesions from lepromatous and reversal reaction patients
we performed single-cell RNA-sequencing by Seq-Well on skin biopsy specimens from five reversal and five lepromatous patients. We obtained 21,318 cells from 10 biopsy specimens, detecting an average of 741 genes and 3,556 transcripts per cell. we recovered 12 primary cell types across all 10 samples. These annotated cell types include: T cells, B cells, plasma cells, myeloid cells, Langerhans cells, mast cells, keratinocytes, fibroblasts, smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells, eccrine gland cells and melanocytes. Overall design: Examine differences between Lepromatous and Reversal reaction lesions