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Socioeconomic determinants of the leprosy risk in Yunnan Province, China: a county-level spatiotemporal study

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundMaking leprosy history in low-burden countries is a crucial step in achieving the World Health Organization’s 2021–2030 Global Leprosy Strategy.
Jian Qian, Yue Ma, Yuxin Wei, Zutong Peng, Wei Li, Tao Zhang, Fei Yin, Tiejun Shui   +7 more
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Elimination of Leprosy as a public health problem by 2000 AD: an epidemiological perspective

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2011
BACKGROUND: Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and manifests as damage to the skin and peripheral nerves. The disease is dreaded because it causes deformities, blindness and disfigurement.
Dickson Shey Nsagha, Elijah Afolabi Bamgboye, Jules Clement Nguedia Assob, Anna Longdoh Njunda, Henri Lucien Foumou Kamga, Anne-Cocile Zoung-Kanyi Bissek, Earnest Nji Tabah, Alain Bankole OO Oyediran, Alfred Kongnyu Njamnshi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Notes on Acquired Leprosy as Observed in England [PDF]

, 1889
J. Ciaran Hutchinson
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A rare case of lepromatous leprosy in Germany

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Roman Saternus, Gisela Bretzel, Tamaz Tsulaia, Kristin Burckhardt, Krista Yordanova, Sophie Elisabeth Müller, Steffen Jahn, Thomas Vogt, Sophie Schneitler   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socio‐Demographic and Environmental Correlates of Leprosy: A Hospital Based Cases Control Study

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2013
Introduction: Worldwide, India alone contributes approximately 50% of Leprosy cases. The Natural history of Leprosy has still many gaps about causation of Leprosy. There are very few studies focusing on all possible factors that might be associated with
Devang A Jariwala, Bharat H Patel, Naresh R Godara, S L Kantharia   +3 more
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Personhood, agency and suicide in a neo-liberalising South India. [PDF]

, 2015
Explanations for increased rates of youth suicide in the South Indian leprosy colony where I conducted research were reduced, in popular discourse about causality, to the categories of debt, unfulfilled aspiration and desires, and romantic failures ...
Staples, J
core  

BCG vaccination and leprosy protection: review of current evidence and status of BCG in leprosy control.

, 2010
The bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses did not provide a summary estimate of the efficacy due to the
Cunha, Sergio S, Merle, Corinne SC, Rodrigues, Laura C   +2 more
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LEPROSY—AN IMPERIAL DANGER [PDF]

, 1889
H. P. Wright
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‘Who Is Afraid of Fairenesse or Wanton Ladies Appearing in Their Barenesse?’: Laughing at Female Desire in Early Modern English Reception of the Myth of the Trojan War☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 612-631, November 2025.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth’s heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war’s calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth’s women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
wiley   +1 more source

On the Age of Leprosy

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
Leprosy is a chronic infection of the skin and nerves caused by Mycobacterium leprae and the newly discovered Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Human leprosy has been documented for millennia in ancient cultures. Recent genomic studies of worldwide M. leprae strains have further traced it along global human dispersals during the past ∼ 100,000 years. Because
Xiang-Yang Han, Francisco J. Silva
openaire   +5 more sources