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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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Observations on the culture of M.leprae in medium V. [PDF]

, 1983
This paper reports the preliminary findings of an investigation using Medium V for culture of M. leprae. The medium was prepared adhering to the procedures adopted by Veeraraghavan.
Hari, Lalitha, Herbert, Daniel, Prabhakar, R   +2 more
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Multiplex PCR technique could be an alternative approach for early detection of leprosy among close contacts - a pilot study from India [PDF]

, 2010
Background Implementation of Multi drug Therapy (MDT) regimen has resulted in the decline of the total number of leprosy cases in the world.
Surajita Banerjee, Kamalesh Sarkar, Soma Gupta, Prasanta Sinha Mahapatra, Siddhartha Gupta, Samudra Guha, Debasis Bandhopadhayay, Chaitry Ghosal, Suman Kalyan Paine, Rathindra Nath Dutta, Nibir Biswas, Basudev Bhattacharya   +11 more
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Advances in Single‐Cell Sequencing for Infectious Diseases: Progress and Perspectives

Advanced Science, Volume 12, Issue 32, August 28, 2025.
Single‐cell sequencing technologies uncover novel, unknown, and emergent features of many diseases. This review describes recent progress of single‐cell sequencing technologies and their applications in infectious diseases, summarizes the underlying commonalities of different infections and discusses future research directions, facilitating the ...
Mengyuan Lyu, Yang Liu, Jian Zhou, Hongli Lai, Hongxia Ruan, Dongsheng Wu, Shun Zhu, Xudong Zhou, Wananqi Ma, Yuchen Huang, Shuting Lei, Han Luo, Jie Chen, Binwu Ying   +13 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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Combined therapy in leprosy : background and findings [PDF]

, 1978
This report is based on data obtained from 64 lepromatous cases. Despite many years of DDS monotherapy, the homogenates from biopsies of these patients revealed 104 or more bacteria.
Bonnici, Edgar, Depasquale, George, Freerksen, Enno, Kruger-Thiemer, Malwine, Rosenfeld, Magdalena   +4 more
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Quantitative lateral flow strip assays as user-friendly tools to detect biomarker profiles for leprosy [PDF]

, 2016
Leprosy is a debilitating, infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Despite the availability of multidrug therapy, transmission is unremitting. Thus, early identification of M. leprae infection is essential to reduce transmission.
Alam, K. (Korshed), Corstjens, P.L.A.M. (Paul L. A. M.), De Dood, C.J. (Claudia J.), Eeden, S.J.F. (Susan) van den, Faber, R. (Roel), Geluk, A. (Annemieke), Richardus, J.H. (Jan Hendrik), Richardus, R. (Renate), Tjon Kon Fat, E.M. (Elisa M.), Van Hooij, A. (Anouk), Wilson, L. (Lindsay)   +10 more
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Localized borderline lepromatous leprosy

Leprosy Review, 1991
A 48-year-old soldier presented with 3 small leprosy lesions localized over the flexor area of the forearm. There was no nerve thickening and clinically the lesions looked like borderline-tuberculoid leprosy. However, these lesions demonstrated a bacteriological index (BI) of 4+ while no acid-fast bacilli (AFB) could be demonstrated from any other site
P K, Jha, S, Talwar, M S, Suresh, V, Panvelkar   +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
wiley   +1 more source

Arthritis in Leprosy Without Specific Skin Lesion [PDF]

, 2010
Leprosy patients could display a great variability of signs and symptoms. An overabundance of rheumatic manifestations, occuring alone or in varying combinations, are associated with leprosy, particularly with lepra reactions A study involving seventy ...
Dewi, S. (Sumartini), Setiyohadi, B. (Bambang)   +1 more
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