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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 +22 more
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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 +18 more
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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
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Mycobacterium leprae Infection in Ticks and Tick-Derived Cells
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Leprosy is a zoonosis in the southern United States involving humans and wild armadillos. The majority of patients presenting with zoonotic strains of Mycobacterium leprae note extensive outdoor activity but only rarely report any history of direct ...
Natthida Tongluan +12 more
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A Modern History of ‘Imperial Medicine’ Surrounding Hansen’s Disease: Strategies to Manage Public Opinion in Modern Japanese Media* [PDF]
Uisahak, 2017 The purpose of this study is to understand the reality of imperial medicine by exploring the strategic attitude of the Japanese authority targeting the public who were not patients of Hansen’s disease. For this purpose, this study examines the mass media
Gijae SEO
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Death and Survival of Patients with Hansen’s Disease in Colonial Korea [PDF]
Uisahak, 2019 The purpose of this research is to describe how Hansen’s disease patients experienced the modern system of control of Hansen’s disease introduced by Japan, and the inimical attitude of society against them in colonial Korea.
Jae-Hyung KIM
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A clinicoepidemiological study of psychiatric co-morbidity in Hansen's Disease
Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2021 Introduction: Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by mycobacterium leprae. Chronicity of the disease leads to various psychiatric co-morbidities, which are often undiagnosed and untreated.
Ritu Rani +5 more
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Active surveillance of Hansen's Disease (leprosy): importance for case finding among extra-domiciliary contacts. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013 Hansen's disease (leprosy) remains an important health problem in Brazil, where 34,894 new cases were diagnosed in 2010, corresponding to 15.3% of the world's new cases detected in that year. The purpose of this study was to use home visits as a tool for
Maria L N Moura +12 more
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International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2020 Hansen's disease is a chronic infectious granulomatous disease with varied clinical presentation. In the postelimination era, histoid Hansen's disease is an important emerging lepromatous subset known to mimic varied dermatoses, thereby making clinical ...
Vikas Pathania +5 more
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Memories and history of Hansen's disease in Brazil told by witnesses (1960-2000) [PDF]
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2003 This report is a preliminary result of a survey on memories and history of Hansen's disease, or 'hanseniasis', prepared by the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) and the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) using statements from those who have been
Laurinda Rosa Maciel +3 more
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