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HL—A phenotype frequencies were studied in 30 patients with leprosy and in 149 healthy controls. Leprosy patients had a significantly higher frequency of HL—A14. In addition, a majority of the HL—A14 patients gave a negative response to leproma antigen using the Mitsuda test.
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Kreisler et al. (1974) studied this question.
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