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Purna Dwivedi1,2, Mukul Sharma1, Purushottam Patel1
1Indian Council of Medical Research, National Institute of Research in Tribal Health, Jabalpur, India.
The Journal of Dermatology
|October 22, 2021
Abstract:
We have developed a polymerase chain reaction-based method to detect and distinguish Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis using a single set of primers based on a 45-bp difference in the amplicon size of their rpoT gene. This method can also help in detecting the cases of co-infection in a single experiment.
