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A role for natural antibody in the pathogenesis of leprosy: antibody in nonimmune serum mediates C3 fixation to the Mycobacterium leprae surface and hence phagocytosis by human mononuclear phagocytes.

We have previously determined that complement receptors on human mononuclear phagocytes and complement component C3 in nonimmune serum mediate phagocytosis of the intracellular bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, the agent of leprosy. We have also determined that C3 fixes selectively to the maj...

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Main Authors: Schlesinger, L S, Horwitz, M A
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: 1994
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC186098/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8262640
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