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Playful approach to Hansen’s disease through an educational comic book [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to develop a creative educational technology in the form of an educational comic book on Hansen’s disease for primary health care professionals.
Denise Quandt, Carine Vendruscolo, Ivana Griboggi, Antônio Francisco Jacó Rodrigues, Clodis Maria Tavares, Daiana Kloh Khalaf   +5 more
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Meanings and senses of Hansen’s disease for health workers from a Vygotskian perspective: a qualitative study [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Hansen's disease is an infectious disease with a slow and chronic evolution that can manifest itself through skin lesions, with changes in thermal, painful and tactile sensitivity, and also affect peripheral nerves, causing significant ...
Karen da Silva Santos, Marlene Fagundes Carvalho Gonçalves, Felipe Lima dos Santos, Priscila Norié Araujo-Betetti, Poliana Silva de Oliveira, Marcela Gonçalves, Patricia Bessaoud-Alonso, Cinira Magali Fortuna   +7 more
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Health-Related Quality of Life of People Living with Hansen’s Disease Undergoing Multidrug Therapy [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Background: Multidrug therapy (MDT) is the cornerstone of treatment for Hansen’s disease. We aimed to identify factors associated with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of people with Hansen’s disease undergoing MDT. Methods: Sixty-six people of any
Victor Feitosa de Freitas, Liliane Lins-Kusterer, Karen Valadares Trippo, Herman Henrique Silva Santana, Fernando Martins Carvalho   +4 more
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Economic cost of Hansen’s disease: an overview of social security expenditures [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionBrazil is the second highest worldwide regarding new cases of Hansen’s disease (HD), with over 20,000 diagnoses annually. Late detection often results in severe disabilities that impair daily functioning, reduce work capacity, and increase ...
Jose Marcelo Castro, Filipe Rocha Lima, Filipe Rocha Lima, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade, Claudia Souza Passador   +4 more
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Mental health and stigma in persons affected by Hansen's disease and their families in rural Sitapur, India. [PDF]

PLOS Mental Health
Psychological problems are common among persons affected by Hansen's disease, a chronic but treatable disease that remains endemic in India despite available and effective treatment.
Tosca Van Hoorde, Matthew Willis, Srilekha Penna, Ewelina Julia Barnowska, Sophie C W Unterkircher, Fabian Schlumberger, Anil Fastenau   +6 more
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Serological Immunoassay for Hansen’s Disease Diagnosis and Monitoring Treatment: Anti-Mce1A Antibody Response Among Hansen’s Disease Patients and Their Household Contacts in Northeastern Brazil [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
Hansen’s disease (HD) is an ancient disease, but more than 200,000 new cases were reported worldwide in 2019. Currently, there are not many satisfactory immunoassay methods for its diagnosis.
Filipe Rocha Lima, Filipe Rocha Lima, Fred Bernardes Filho, Fred Bernardes Filho, Vanderson Mayron Granemann Antunes, Vanderson Mayron Granemann Antunes, Jaci Maria Santana, Jaci Maria Santana, Regina Coeli Palma de Almeida, Regina Coeli Palma de Almeida, Diana Mota Toro, Vinicius Fozatti Bragagnollo, Vinicius Fozatti Bragagnollo, Gabriel Martins da Costa Manso, Gabriel Martins da Costa Manso, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Eliracema Silva Alves, Eliracema Silva Alves, Lee W. Riley, Sérgio Arruda, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade   +22 more
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Serological testing for Hansen’s disease diagnosis: Clinical significance and performance of IgA, IgM, and IgG antibodies against Mce1A protein

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
Hansen’s disease (HD) is an infectious, treatable, and chronic disease. It is the main cause of infectious peripheral neuropathy. Due to the current limitations of laboratory tests for the diagnosis of HD, early identification of infected contacts is an ...
Filipe Rocha Lima, Filipe Rocha Lima, Mateus Mendonça Ramos Simões, Mateus Mendonça Ramos Simões, Gabriel Martins da Costa Manso, Gabriel Martins da Costa Manso, Diana Mota Toro, Vanderson Mayron Granemann Antunes, Vanderson Mayron Granemann Antunes, Giovani Cesar Felisbino, Giovani Cesar Felisbino, Gabriela Ferreira Dias, Gabriela Ferreira Dias, Lee W. Riley, Sérgio Arruda, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Helena Barbosa Lugão, Fernanda André Martins Cruz Perecin, Norma Tiraboschi Foss, Norma Tiraboschi Foss, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade   +22 more
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Bacilloscopy and polymerase chain reaction of slit-skin smears and anti-phenolic glycolipid-I serology for Hansen’s disease diagnosis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
The bacilloscopy of the slit-skin smear (SSS) is the exclusive laboratory test associated with dermato-neurological evaluation for Hansen’s disease (HD) diagnosis; however, it is negative in the majority of PB or primary neural forms.
Filipe Rocha Lima, Filipe Rocha Lima, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Mateus Mendonça Ramos Simões, Mateus Mendonça Ramos Simões, Gabriel Martins da Costa Manso, Gabriel Martins da Costa Manso, Gustavo Sartori Albertino, Gustavo Sartori Albertino, Giovani Cesar Felisbino, Giovani Cesar Felisbino, Vanderson Mayron Granemann Antunes, Vanderson Mayron Granemann Antunes, Fernanda André Martins Cruz Perecin, Andrezza Telles Westin, Helena Barbosa Lugão, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade   +18 more
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The Armadillo as a Model for Leprosy Nerve Function Impairment: Preventative and Therapeutic Interventions

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
Mycobacterium leprae infection of peripheral nerves and the subsequent nerve function impairment (NFI), especially in response to reactional episodes, are hallmarks of leprosy. Improved treatments for M. leprae-induced nerve injury are needed, as most if
Maria Teresa Pena, Ramanuj Lahiri, Gigi J. Ebenezer, Stephen W. Wheat, John Figarola, Richard W. Truman, Linda B. Adams   +6 more
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Hansen’s Disease: A Complete Clinical Guide [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Rezhan Hussein
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