Posible origen de la inmunodeficiencia en la hanseniasis virchowiana

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  • ENRIQUE L. FLIESS Doctor en Ciencias Médicas. Jefe de Laboratorio del Sanatorio Nacional "B. Sommer"; Profesor Adjunto de Biologia, Depto. de Poüdca, Cientifica y Tecnológica, Universidad Nacional de Lujén, C.C. 221-6700 Lujén, Rep. Argentina.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47878/hi.1978.v3.36080

Keywords:

Virchowian hanseniasis, Immunity, Genetics, Histocompatibility

Abstract

The clinical manifestations and some studies about cell-mediated immunity (CMI) demonstrate a graduate response to M. leprae, from the Virchowian polar form, with a poor CMI response, to the Tuberculoid polar form, with exacerbated phenomena of CMI. The possibility of a genetic-controlled IMC response to M. leprae is reviewed. A hypothesis is suggested that the susceptibility to any type of hanseniasis is controlled by an operon linked to the K or D regions of the HLA system. This operon would act as a trigger to the heterosntigen-detecting fraction of the T cells receptors.

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1978-11-30

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FLIESS EL. Posible origen de la inmunodeficiencia en la hanseniasis virchowiana. Hansen. Int. [Internet]. 1978 Nov. 30 [cited 2024 Jul. 22];3(2):141-50. Available from: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/hansenologia/article/view/36080

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