%0 Journal Article %K Antibodies, Bacterial %K Antigens, Bacterial %K Complement C1q %K Complement C3 %K Complement Fixation Tests %K Complement Pathway, Alternative %K Complement Pathway, Classical %K Glycolipids %K Humans %K Immunoglobulins %K In Vitro Techniques %K leprosy %K Leukocytes, Mononuclear %K Mycobacterium leprae %K Phagocytosis %B Infection and immunity %D 1994 %G eng %N 1 %P 280-9 %T A role for natural antibody in the pathogenesis of leprosy: antibody in nonimmune serum mediates C3 fixation to the Mycobacterium leprae surface and hence phagocytosis by human mononuclear phagocytes. %V 62 %1 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8262640?dopt=Abstract %8 1994 Jan