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Migration and leprosy in Brazil [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Leprosy is among the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), and is an endemic public health problem in high-risk clusters throughout Brazil. Leprosy is caused by the intracellular bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the skin and peripheral ...
Murto, Christine
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010 We studied the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients with leprosy and the effects of co-infection on the immune response to Helicobacter antigens in the polar groups of leprosy (lepromatous and tuberculoid).
Neluka Fernando +3 more
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Pride and prejudice--identity and stigma in leprosy work. [PDF]
, 2011 This article sets out to expand the way stigma, and those affected by it, are understood within leprosy discourse and to apply these insights to the analysis of the experiences of leprosy workers.
Harris, Kristine
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Livedo reticularis in type 2 lepra reaction: A rare presentation
Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2014 Type 2 lepra reaction or erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) is an immune complex syndrome that occurs mostly in lepromatous leprosy and sometimes in borderline lepromatous leprosy patients.
Kikkeri Narayanasetty Naveen +3 more
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Case Report - Lepromatous leprosy of histoid type [PDF]
, 2007 Histoid leprosy is a variant of lepromatous leprosy, which develops as a result of resistance to dapsone monotherapy. Here we report two cases of lepromatous leprosy of histoid type, one with typical and another with atypical ...
Annigeri, SR, Metgud, SC, Patil, JR
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Erythema nodosum as Leprosy reaction
Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2020 Purpose.To present a clinical case of leprosy exacerbation on the background of ongoing therapy. Materials and methods.A 52-year-old patient with a diagnosis of "lepromatous (cutaneous) leprosy, leprosy LL" (multi-bacterial leprosy, lepromatous form ...
Viktoria G. Semenova +2 more
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Histoid leprosy: Role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the diagnosis
Journal of the Scientific Society, 2012 Histoid leprosy is a distinct variant of lepromatous leprosy. It presents clinically as well demarcated cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules similar to dermatofibroma.
Sunita Y Patil, Rajeev A Malipatil
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Human T cell responses to peptides of the Mycobacterium leprae 45-kD serine-rich antigen. [PDF]
, 2002 In order to identify T cell epitopes within the Mycobacterium leprae 45-kD serine-rich antigen, we analysed responses to overlapping 17-mer peptides encompassing the whole antigen in non-exposed UK controls, Pakistani leprosy patients and tuberculosis ...
Zafar, S +9 more
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Pretty leprosy: Another face of Hansen’s disease! A review
Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2014 Pretty leprosy is one of the rare severe forms of lepromatous leprosy. It is a reaction pattern that occurs in untreated pure primitive diffuse lepromatous leprosy or lepromatous leprosy.
P. Prem Anand +4 more
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Leprosy in families: Clinicoepidemiological profile from a tertiary care centre
Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2017 Objectives: The primary objective of this retrospective study was to determine the prevalence of leprosy in families, and the secondary objective was to study the clinicoepidemiological features of leprosy in families.
Sukumaran Pradeep Nair
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