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Autoaggressive hanseniasis
1Service of Dermatology, University Hospital, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
I have given the name autoaggressive hanseniasis to a syndrome with immunopathologic and clinical pictures resembling autoaggressive systemic diseases observed in some cases of lepromatous and borderline hanseniasis. It is probably caused by B cell stimulation by antigenic complex of Mycobacterium leprae plus autologous tissue, along with a dysfunction of the T-suppressor lymphocytes.