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Patterns and trends of tribal leprosy: An overview from a tertiary care leprosy clinic of Choto Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2022
Background: Leprosy is a chronic granulomatous disease mainly affecting the peripheral nerves and skin. Any communities including the tribals are susceptible to leprosy.
Somenath Sarkar, Tanusree Sarkar, Aparesh C Patra, Arghyaprasun Ghosh, Hirak Gorai, Soumyadeep Mondal   +5 more
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Diagnosing and treating leprosy in a non-endemic setting in a national centre, London, United Kingdom 1995-2018.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
BackgroundLeprosy is rare in the United Kingdom (UK), but migration from endemic countries results in new cases being diagnosed each year. We documented the clinical presentation of leprosy in a non-endemic setting.MethodsDemographic and clinical data on
Diana N Lockwood, Amy McIntosh, Margaret Armstrong, Anna M Checkley, Stephen L Walker, Angela McBride   +5 more
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Community knowledge, perceptions and attitudes regarding leprosy in rural Cameroon: The case of Ekondotiti and Mbonge health districts in the South-west Region. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
Although leprosy is one of the oldest diseases known to humanity, it remains largely misunderstood. Misconceptions about leprosy lead to stigma towards people with the disease.
Earnest Njih Tabah, Dickson Shey Nsagha, Anne-Cécile Zoung-Kanyi Bissek, Theophilus Ngeh Njamnshi, Irine Ngani-Nformi Njih, Gerd Pluschke, Alfred Kongnyu Njamnshi   +6 more
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Genital manifestations of tropical diseases [PDF]

, 2004
Genital symptoms in tropical countries and among returned travellers can arise from a variety of bacterial, protozoal, and helminthic infections which are not usually sexually transmitted.
Richens, J
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Anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha therapy during murine Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia: increased mortality in the absence of liver injury. [PDF]

, 2003
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of gram-negative bacterial pneumonia, often resulting in bacteremia concurrent with the localized pulmonary infection.
Cogen, Anna L, Lau, Helen Y, Monteleon, Christine L, Moore, Thomas A, Standiford, Theodore J   +4 more
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Relationship between psychological health and quality of life of people affected by leprosy in the community in Guangdong province, China: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background This paper investigates the relationship between psychological health and quality of life (QOL) of people affected by leprosy (PAL) living in a community in Guangdong province, China.
Mingzhou Xiong, Xiaohua Wang, Ting Su, Bin Yang, Ming Li, Daocheng Zheng   +5 more
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Self-care interventions to reduce, prevent or monitor physical disability in those affected by leprosy: Protocol for a systematic review. [PDF]

PLoS One
Willis M, Asboeck A, Amorim BBC, Deps PD, Fastenau A, Boeckmann M.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Illness perceptions of leprosy-cured individuals in Surinam with residual disfigurements – “I am cured, but still I am ill” [PDF]

, 2016
Objective Leprosy has rarely been the subject of health psychology research despite its substantial impact. Our aim was to explore illness perceptions in patients and their health care providers in Surinam.
Kaptein, Ad A., Lawrence, Maggie, Menke, Jack, Reyme, Melinda, van Haaren, Mark A.C.   +4 more
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The Impact of Leprosy on Marital Relationships and Sexual Health among Married Women in Eastern Nepal

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2016
Background. Leprosy is one of the most stigmatized diseases known today. The stigma surrounding leprosy can be a major burden and affects many dimensions of a person’s life, including intimate relationships.
Anna T. van ’t Noordende, Wim H. van Brakel, Nandlal Banstola, Krishna P. Dhakal   +3 more
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Cytosolic proteome profiling of aminoglycosides resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates using MALDI-TOF/MS

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016
Emergence of extremely drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is the consequence of the failure of second line TB treatment. Aminoglycosides are the important second line anti-TB drugs used to treat the multi drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
Divakar Sharma, Manju Lata, Rananjay Singh, Nirmala Deo, Krishnamurthy Venkatesan, Deepa Bisht   +5 more
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