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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Hansen’s disease in Brazil: Monitoring of disabilities [PDF]
Millenium, 2017 Introdution: Hansen’s disease is an infecto-contagious, chronic and curable disease, caused by the Mycobacterium Leprae with a preference for the peripheral nervous system.
Liana Alencar, Madalena Cunha
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Therapeutic Potential for Cytokine Antagonists: Thalidomide and Pentoxifylline in Hansen’s Disease [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1995 Cytokine antagonists are a group of drugs defined by their actions on specific cytokines. Cytokine antagonists can inhibit action of cytokines by acting directly on receptors, by affecting production of cytokines or by binding to cytokines and preventing
Theresa C Peterson
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Immunohistochemical Study of Nerve Growth Factor Expression in Hansen’s Disease
Indian Journal of Dermatopathology and Diagnostic DermatologyAim: To study the immunoexpression of nerve growth factor (NGF) in Hansen’s disease to assess the diagnostic and prognostic significance. Objective: NGF is a neurotrophin and an important growth factor for the tissue remodeling process. Higher expression
Fatma Lubna +3 more
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THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HANSEN’S DISEASE IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF CARIRÉ – CEARÁ, FROM 2001 TO 2010. [PDF]
Revista Gestão & Saúde, 2013 Hansen’s disease is an important public health problem, which has been attackingand physically and socially mutilating innumerous subjects. The study had as objective to perform an epidemiological and operational assessment of Hansen’s disease in the ...
Francisco Rosemiro Guimarães Ximenes 4 , Jurandi Pontes Carvalho Filho5 , +5 more
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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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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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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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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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Promoting Social Inclusion : Voices from Persons Affected by Hansen’s Disease [PDF]
, 2019 Hansen’s disease or leprosy is one of the stigmatized skin afflictions in human history. The afflicted persons who are clinically cured often received persisting discrimination and suffer the consequences of the affliction.
Atiqah, Abd-Rahim, Kaur, Parveen
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