Interruption of persistent exposure to leprosy combined or not with recent BCG vaccination enhances the response to Mycobacterium leprae specific antigens

• Fernanda Marques de Carvalho,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Luciana Silva Rodrigues,

  Current address: Laboratory of Immunopathology, Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Nádia Cristina Duppre,

  Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Iris Maria Peixoto Alvim,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Research in DST- AIDS, Institute of Clinical Research Evandro Chagas, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Roberta Olmo Pinheiro,

  Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Euzenir Nunes Sarno,

  Affiliation Leprosy Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani ,

  * E-mail: cpessola@ioc.fiocruz.br (MCVP); geraldo@ioc.fiocruz.br (GMBP)

  ¶‡ These senior authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Geraldo Moura Batista Pereira

  * E-mail: cpessola@ioc.fiocruz.br (MCVP); geraldo@ioc.fiocruz.br (GMBP)

  ¶‡ These senior authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Microbiology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-5376

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