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Leprosy in blood donors

Tropical Medicine &International Health, Volume 30, Issue 9, Page 1018-1022, September 2025.
Abstract Objectives We investigated the prevalence of anti‐phenolic glycolipid‐I (PGL‐I) IgM antibodies among temporarily unfit blood donors at the Pará State Blood Bank (HEMOPA), located in the Amazon region of northern Brazil. Using an arbitrary high cutoff for optical density (OD ≥0.750) in ELISA, a subset of donors was invited for clinical ...
Erika Vanessa Oliveira Jorge, Angélica Rita Gobbo, Izabelle Laissa Viana Costa, Raquel Carvalho Bouth, Sâmela Miranda da Silva, Ana Caroline Cunha Messias, Josafá Gonçalves Barreto, Patrícia Fagundes da Costa, Pablo Diego do Carmo Pinto, Moises Batista da Silva, John Stewart Spencer, Maurício Koury Palmeira, Claudio Guedes Salgado   +12 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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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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Two pathogens, one disease: Rethinking leprosy diversification through ancient and modern genomes

Clinical and Translational Medicine, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
Maria Lopopolo, Charlotte Avanzi, Nicolás Rascovan   +2 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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Clinical variables associated with disability in leprosy cases in northeast Brazil

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015
Introduction: The clinical outcomes of leprosy include complications such as physical disabilities and deformities that vary according to the degree of impairment of nerve trunks.
Victor Santana Santos, Andressa Mayara Santos de Matos, Lorena Sheila Alves de Oliveira, Ligia Mara Dolce de Lemos, Ricardo Queiroz Gurgel, Francisco Prado Reis, Vanessa Tavares de Gois Santos, Vera Lúcia Corrêa Feitosa   +7 more
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Lepromatous Leprosy [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1973
Sheila M Johnston, A C McDougall, T J Ryan   +2 more
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Renal involvement in leprosy: retrospective analysis of 461 cases in Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: Renal lesions in leprosy have been extensively described, including amyloidosis, glomerulonephritis, nephrosclerosis, tubulointerstitial nephritis and granulomas.
Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Júnior, Elizabeth De Francesco Daher   +1 more
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Leprosy Specific Orofacial Aspects

Journal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2011
Leprosy is a chronic infection caused by Mycobactenum leprae, GHA- Hansen first identified the organism in 1873, so called Hansen disease. Mycobacterium leprae is a bacillus that presents a peculiar tropism for the skin and peripheral nerves.
Vathsala Naik, Raghavendra Kini, Smit Singla, Anjali Shetty   +3 more
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Atypical presentation of leprosy: A report of two cases

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2007
We report two atypical presentation of leprosy-granuloma annulare like in a case of borderline tuberculoid leprosy, another erythema multiforme like lesion in borderline lepromatous leprosy.
Das Sudip, Roy Aloke, Kar Chinmoy, Giri Parag   +3 more
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