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Increased CD5+ B-cells are associated with autoimmune phenomena in lepromatous leprosy patients

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2019
Background and objective: Leprosy is a chronic slowly progressive infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae that primarily affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Lepromatous leprosy is characterized by absence of T-cell responses to M.
Attia Kotb, Samia Ismail, Itoh Kimito, Waghi Mohamed, Alamery Salman, Arif A. Mohammed   +5 more
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Lucio's phenomenon: exuberant case report and review of Brazilian cases [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2016
Lucio’s phenomenon is an uncommon reaction characterized by severe necrotizing cutaneous lesions that occurs in patients with Lucio’s leprosy and lepromatous leprosy. It is considered by some authors as a variant of type 2 or 3 reaction.
Rafael Henrique Rocha, Paulo Sergio Emerich, Lucia Martins Diniz, Marcela Bahia Barretto de Oliveira, Aline Neves Freitas Cabral, Ana Cristina Vervloet do Amaral   +5 more
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CD4+ Th17 cells discriminate clinical types and constitute a third subset of non Th1, Non Th2 T cells in human leprosy. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013
BACKGROUND: Patients with localized tuberculoid and generalized lepromatous leprosy show respectively Th1 and Th2 cytokine profile. Additionally, other patients in both types of leprosy also show a non discriminating Th0 cytokine profile with both ...
Chaman Saini, V Ramesh, Indira Nath
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Corneal Hypoaesthersia In Various Types Of Leprosy

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 1999
Four hundred leprosy patients comprising of 140 lepromatous leprosy, 72 borderline and 188 tuberculoid leprosy patients were examined for corneal hypoaesthesia.
Kumar Keshri Pradip, Pathak Ashok, Kar H. K, Sinha T. R. D   +3 more
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Lucio Phenomenon: An Unusual Case of Skin Necrosis

Case Reports in Dermatology
Introduction: Lucio leprosy is a non-nodular diffuse type of lepromatous leprosy first described by Lucio and Alvarado. Lucio phenomenon is a rare vasculonecrotic reaction characterized by cutaneous necrosis with minimal constitutional features.
Kaveri Rusia, Vikrant Saoji, Bhushan Madke, Adarshlata Singh   +3 more
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Lepromatous leprosy and human immunodeficiency virus co-infection associated with phenomenon of Lucio versus immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

Infectio
: Diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL) is a severe clinical outcome of lepromatous leprosy (LL). The aetiologic cause is believed to be different from Mycobacterium leprae.
Héctor Alejandro Serrano-Coll, Juan Camilo Beltrán-Alzate, Sonia Milena Buitrago, Nora Cardona-Castro   +3 more
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Histoid leprosy in a 12-year-old child: A rare presentation

Indian Journal of Paediatric Dermatology, 2016
Histoid leprosy is a clinical variant of nodular form of lepromatous leprosy. De novo histoid leprosy in children is a rare clinical presentation. We hereby report a case of a 12-year-old child presenting with lesions of histoid leprosy.
Sandeep Anilrao Kulkarni, Namrata Chhabra, Neel Prabha   +2 more
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Borderline lepromatous leprosy with neurofibromatosis

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2010
The coexistence of leprosy with neurofibromatosis is rare both the diseases present with nerve thickening and skin lesions (patches and nodules). The coexistence of neurofibroma with borderline tuberculoid, lepromatous, histoid, and neuritic leprosy has ...
Angoori Gnaneshwar, Danturty Indira, Rekha Singh T   +2 more
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Immunohistochemical characterization of the M4 macrophage population in leprosy skin lesions

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Since macrophages are one of the major cell types involved in the Mycobacterium leprae immune response, roles of the M1 and M2 macrophage subpopulations have been well defined. However, the role of M4 macrophages in leprosy or other infectious
Jorge Rodrigues de Sousa, Francisco Dias Lucena Neto, Mirian Nacagami Sotto, Juarez Antonio Simões Quaresma   +3 more
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Analysis of clinical data and T helper 1/T helper 2 responses in patients with different clinical forms of leprosy

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
INTRODUCTION: Currently, there are no laboratory tests or sensitive and specific molecular markers for the early diagnosis of leprosy. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics of patients with leprosy and investigate their ...
Ricardo Wilson de Pinho Rodrigues, Afonso Bezerra Ribeiro, Gilcele de Campos Martin Berber, LeeYun Sheng, Amilcar Sabino Damazo   +4 more
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