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Construction and Analysis of the Complete Genome Sequence of Leprosy Agent Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. We report construction and analyses of the complete genome sequence of M. lepromatosis FJ924.
Xiang-Yang Han, Diego Santos-Garcia, Francisco J Silva   +2 more
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Systematic Review of Hansen Disease Attributed to Mycobacterium lepromatosis

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
In 2008, bacilli from 2 Hansen disease (leprosy) cases were identified as a new species, Mycobacterium lepromatosis. We conducted a systematic review of studies investigating M. lepromatosis as a cause of HD.
Simon M. Collin, Amanda Lima, Stéfano Heringer, Vinícius Sanders, Hugo Aborghetti Pessotti, Patrícia Deps   +5 more
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Mycobacterium lepromatosis as a Second Agent of Hansen’s Disease [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021
Mycobacterium lepromatosis was identified as a new species and second causal agent of Hansen’s disease (HD, or leprosy) in 2008, 150years after the disease was first attributed to Mycobacterium leprae. M.
Simon M. Collin, Patrícia Duarte Deps
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Vasculonecrotic Reaction Caused by Mycobacterium Lepromatosis Infection—A Case Report of an HIV/Leprosy-Coinfected Patient

Infectious Disease Reports
Background: Vasculonecrotic reactions in leprosy are typically associated with type 2 reactions. Differentiating between necrotizing erythema nodosum leprosum (nENL) and Lucio’s phenomenon (LP) can be difficult, as overlapping clinical and ...
Fernando Amador-Lara, Luz Gonzalez-Hernandez, Jaime F Andrade-Villanueva   +2 more
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Mycobacterium lepromatosis as Cause of Leprosy, Colombia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
Leprosy is a granulomatous infection caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae or M. lepromatosis. We evaluated skin biopsy and slit skin smear samples from 92 leprosy patients in Colombia by quantitative PCR.
Nora Cardona-Castro, María Victoria Escobar-Builes, Héctor Serrano-Coll, Linda B. Adams, Ramanuj Lahiri   +4 more
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Reverse vaccinology and subtractive genomics approaches for identifying common therapeutics against Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis [PDF]

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2021
Background Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis are gram-positive bacterial pathogens and the causative agents of leprosy in humans across the world.
Arun Kumar Jaiswal, Sandeep Tiwari, Syed Babar Jamal, Letícia de Castro Oliveira, Helioswilton Sales-Campos, Leonardo Eurípedes Andrade-Silva, Carlo Jose Freire Oliveira, Preetam Ghosh, Debmalya Barh, Vasco Azevedo, Siomar C. Soares, Virmondes Rodrigues Junior, Marcos Vinicius da Silva   +12 more
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British Red Squirrels (S. vulgaris) With Leprosy Develop Skeletal Lesions

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases
Leprosy, caused by Mycobacterium lepromatosis or Mycobacterium leprae, has been reported in red squirrels in Britain from Scotland to the south of England.
Elliot Elliott, Richard Thomas, Sarah A. Inskip, Andrea Cooper, Andrew C. Kitchener, Katie M. Beckmann, Anna Meredith   +6 more
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Mycobacterium uberis Infection in the Subcutaneous Tissue of the Radius/Ulna Area of a Cow

Microorganisms, 2020
Mycobacterium uberis (M. uberis) is a recently described non-tuberculous mycobacterium phylogenetically close to Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae) and Mycobacterium lepromatosis (M. lepromatosis).
Lorraine Michelet, Maria Laura Boschiroli   +1 more
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Unraveling Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium leprae: Exploring Genetic Mutations to Enhance Treatment Strategies for Human Leprosy—A Narrative Review

International Journal of Microbiology
Leprosy, one of the oldest diseases, is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis and continues to pose a significant global public health challenge despite decades of control efforts and the widespread use of multidrug therapy ...
Gayathri Perera, Maheshi Thilakarathna, Ishani Aluthgamage, Sakuni Sathsarani, Pasan C. Fernando, Sharini Samaranayake, Nazif Ullah, Bhagya Deepachandi   +7 more
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Clinical, histopathological, and molecular characterization of leprosy in an endemic area of the colombian caribbean

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2021
Background: Mycobacterium leprae was considered the only causal agent of leprosy until Mycobacterium lepromatosis was identified' which it has been suggested has greater pathogenicity and is linked to diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL) and Lucio's ...
Maria Carolina Fragozo-Ramos, Eder Cano-Pérez, Rita Magola Sierra-Merlano, Francisco Camacho-Chaljub, Doris Gómez-Camargo   +4 more
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