Abstract
O-diphenoloxidase activity was studied in 15 patients with lepromatous leprosy, 15 with tuberculois leprosy, and 15 controls. O-diphenoloxidase isolated from skin and serum samples of patients with lepromatous leprosy had the specificity of a bacterially derived enzyme and not that of a mammalian-derived enzyme. Only the patients who had lepromatous leprosy for over two years showed enzyme activity in serum, though all showed it in skin tissue. O-diphenoloxidase activity in serum may be a useful diagnostic marker of lepromatous leprosy.
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