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Hansen's disease – a forgotten disease?

JRSM Open, 2021
Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, is an infection caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae. The authors present the case of a 52-year-old man, born in Tondela and living in Espinho, with no pathological antecedents.
Paula Marques Ferreira, Inês Rueff Rato, Joana Rigor, Margarida Mota   +3 more
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PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH HANSEN'S DISEASE

Indian Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, 2017
Hansen's disease is a nonfatal, chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, whose clinical manifestations are largely confined to the skin, peripheral nervous system, upper respiratory tract and eyes.
ATS Giri, Nagarajaiah, Rajeshwari S Padasalgi, Shireesh S Shindhe   +3 more
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Clinico-histological correlation in Hansen's disease: Three-year experience at a newly established tertiary care center in central India

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2018
Background: Hansen's disease is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It is characterized by a wide range of clinical and histological manifestations. Ridley–Jopling criteria are widely used for classifying leprosy.
Shruti Semwal, Deepti Joshi, Garima Goel, Dinesh Asati, Neelkamal Kapoor   +4 more
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Targeting the ATX‐LPA Axis Overcomes TKI Resistance and Immunosuppression in Renal Cell Carcinoma via Dual Inhibition of AKT/mTOR and TBK1/IRF3 Pathways

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic resistance limits durable survival in advanced/metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treated with first‐line tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) plus immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI). We sought to define key resistance drivers and actionable targets.
Jinchen Luo, Hansen Lin, Haoqian Feng, Lei Tan, Xi Liu, Yong Huang, Junjie Cen, Jiajie Chen, Xinwei Zhou, Mingjie Lin, Wuyuan Liao, Zheyu Ai, Minyu Chen, Yinghan Wang, Wei Chen, Junhang Luo, Yanping Liang   +16 more
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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang, Wanglin Ma, Mengling Diao   +2 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
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Development and validation of a machine learning approach for screening new leprosy cases based on the leprosy suspicion questionnaire

Scientific Reports
Leprosy is a dermatoneurological disease and can cause irreversible nerve damage. In addition to being able to mimic different rheumatological, neurological and dermatological diseases, leprosy is underdiagnosed because several professionals present lack
Mateus Mendonça Ramos Simões, Filipe Rocha Lima, Helena Barbosa Lugão, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Cláudia Maria Lincoln Silva, Alexandre Ferreira Ramos, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade   +6 more
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Sociodemographic and epidemiological profile of leprosy patients in an endemic region in Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
: INTRODUCTION: The incidence of Hansen's disease is high in overlooked populations. METHODS: Data of Hansen's disease cases reported in the information system of the Department of Informatics, Brazilian Unified Health System, from 2013 to 2014 were ...
Ronald Jefferson Martins, Maria Emília Oliveira Gomes Carloni, Suzely Adas Saliba Moimaz, Cléa Adas Saliba Garbin, Artênio José Ísper Garbin   +4 more
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Hansen's disease: a vanishing disease?

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2012
The introduction, implementation, successes and failures of multidrug therapy (MDT) in all Hansen's disease endemic countries are discussed in this paper.
Sinésio Talhari, Maria Aparecida de Faria Grossi, Maria Leide WDR de Oliveira, Bernardo Gontijo, Carolina Talhari, Gerson Oliveira Penna   +5 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

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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