AN ELECTRON-MICROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE SMALL CUTANEOUS VESSELS IN LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 53 (1) , 70-74
Abstract
The small dermal vessels play an important role of the propagation of Mycobcterium leprae. Bacteria can multiply in the endothelial cells and in the pericytes and can enter the blood stream from the endothelial cells and the interstitial space from the pericytes. M. leprae can be phagocytosed by blood monocytes. [EM is used in this study.].This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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