Nucleotide sequence of the gene coding for the 85-B antigen of Mycobacterium leprae.

Leila de Mendonga Lima, Jean Content, Hugo van Heuverswyn and Wim Degrave* Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Laboratory of Hanseniasis, Department of Tropical Medicine, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, FIOCRUZ, Av. Brasil 4365, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 21045, Brasil, lnstitut Pasteur du Brabant, Department of Virology, B-1180 Brussels and lnnogenetics, Industriepark Zwijnaarde 7, box 4, B-9052 Gent, Belgium