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Leprosy review

South African Family Practice, 2021
يمكن أن يؤثر الجذام (مرض هانسن) على العديد من الأعضاء وهياكل الجسم. عادة ما يتم ملاحظة علامات الجلد في المرحلة المبكرة من المرض، وبالتالي تكون أول علامات يمكن تحديدها لدفع الشك السريري. يؤثر الجذام في الغالب على الجلد والأعصاب الطرفية. تم توثيق المرض قبل قرون عديدة من العصر التوراتي.
openaire   +5 more sources

Experimental models of leprosy

Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2017
Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) is a chronic granulomatous bacterial disease which mainly affects skin and peripheral nervous system. Leprosy is caused by the obligate intercellular pathogen known as Mycobacterium leprae.
A. A. Kubanov, A. E. Karamova, A. A. Vorontsova, P. A. Kalinina   +3 more
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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, EarlyView.
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

The influence of innate and adaptative immune responses on the differential clinical outcomes of leprosy

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2017
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. According to official reports from 121 countries across five WHO regions, there were 213 899 newly diagnosed cases in 2014.
A. Fonseca, M. V. Simon, R. Cazzaniga, T. R. de Moura, R. P. de Almeida, M. Duthie, S. Reed, A. D. de Jesus   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Leprosy and tuberculosis concomitant infection: a poorly understood, age-old relationship [PDF]

, 2014
Historically, archaeological evidence, post-mortem findings and retro- spective analysis of leprosy institutions’ data demonstrates a high observed incidence of concomitant infection with leprosy and tuberculosis (TB).
Anjum, V, Hodgson, J, Murthy, K, Rao, AK, Rao, PS, Rao, PV, Rawson, T, Subbanna, J   +7 more
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Holistic Care for Leprosy Patients in Lembata District, East Nusa Tenggara [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Lembata is a district in East Nusa Tenggara with various infectious and non-infectious diseases, including leprosy. The monthly incidence of leprosy increase by 1-2 new cases of leprosy per village. In Lembata there is Lembata Damian Hospital,
Weraman, P. (Pius)
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The spatial epidemiology of leprosy in Kenya: A retrospective study.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BackgroundLeprosy elimination defined as a registered prevalence rate of less than 1 case per 10,000 persons was achieved in Kenya at the national level in 1989.
Fatihiyya Wangara, Hillary Kipruto, Oscar Ngesa, James Kayima, Enos Masini, Joseph Sitienei, Faith Ngari   +6 more
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Multiple Bilateral Erythematous and Suppurative Cutaneous Nodules in a 40‐Year‐Old Indian Female

JEADV Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Aditi Anand, Shaivy Malik, Charanjeet Ahluwalia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leprosy in blood donors

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Contributing to the Delay in Diagnosis and Continued Transmission of Leprosy in Brazil – An Explorative, Quantitative, Questionnaire Based Study

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
Background Leprosy is a leading cause of preventable disability worldwide. Delay in diagnosis of patients augments the transmission of infection, and allows progression of disease and more severe disability.
M. Henry, Noemi Galan, K. Teasdale, R. Prado, Harpreet Amar, M. S. Rays, L. Roberts, Pedro Siqueira, G. de Wildt, M. Virmond, P. Das   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source