Early Events in the Host-parasite Relationship and Immune Response in Clinical Leprosy: Its Possible Importance for Leprosy Control

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Journal Clin Exp Immunol

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 1983 Nov 1

PMID 6228348

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Authors

G Bjune

O Closs

R S Barnetson

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