Validation study of HLA-B*13:01 as a biomarker of dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome in leprosy patients in Indonesia.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Hana Krismawati (लेखक), Astrid Irwanto (लेखक), Arry Pongtiku (लेखक), Ishak Darryl Irwan (लेखक), Yustinus Maladan (लेखक), Yuli Arisanti Sitanggang (लेखक), Tri Wahyuni (लेखक), Ratna Tanjung (लेखक), Yonghu Sun (लेखक), Hong Liu (लेखक), Furen Zhang (लेखक), Antonius Oktavian (लेखक), Jianjun Liu (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Leprosy is a stigmatizing, chronic infection which degenerates the nervous system and often leads to incapacitation. Multi-drug therapy which consists of dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine has been effective to combat this disease. In Indonesia, especially in Papua Island, leprosy is still a proble...