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Severe Leprosy Reactions Due to Mycobacterium lepromatosis [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2013
Leprosy is caused by the well-known Mycobacterium leprae and the newly discovered M lepromatosis. Here, the authors describe 2 cases of leprosy with unusual clinical presentation caused by M lepromatosis. The patients, a 32-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman, both of Mexican origin, manifested high fever, lymphadenopathy and florid skin lesions in ...
Xiang-Yang Han
exaly   +3 more sources

Leprosy Caused byMycobacterium lepromatosis

American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2022
AbstractObjectivesLeprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis. This study reviews literature on M lepromatosis and reports on a Mexican family with this infection.MethodsThe review included all primary studies. Family history and surveys were used to uncover the infection cluster.
Marina Romero-Navarrete   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

“Lucio's Phenomenon” Associated with Mycobacterium lepromatosis [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016
A 49-year-old man born on Sinaloa, Mexico, presented to the consult on December 2014 with ulcerations in the abdominal region and lower extremities with serous fluid, foul smell, and pus, but without lymphadenopathy. Three years before he developed hypopigmented macules in scapular zone, and in November 2014, the first nodules in lower extremities ...
Jesús Salvador, Lucio Vera-Cabrera
exaly   +3 more sources

Infection with Mycobacterium lepromatosis [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016
Microbiologically speaking, the ancient scourge of leprosy has a new face. Considered a curse for millennia, the causative agent, Mycobacterium leprae, was first described by Armauer Hansen in 1874. This inaugurated the field of medical microbiology, preceding the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. But M. leprae is not cultivable, a fact that has
exaly   +3 more sources

Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis Infection: a Report of Six Multibacillary Cases of Leprosy in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesJapanese Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022
The causative agents of leprosy are Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis. Mycobacterium lepromatosis was found in 2008 to cause diffuse lepromatous leprosy in Mexican patients. This study aimed to identify M. leprae and M. lepromatosis in paraffin-embedded skin samples from Caribbean patients with leprosy.
Rigoberto Hernández-Castro   +1 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Analysis of the Leprosy Agents Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in Four Countries

American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2014
To differentiate the leprosy agents Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis and correlate them with geographic distribution and clinicopathologic features.Species-specific polymerase chain reactions were used to detect each bacillus in archived skin biopsy specimens from patients with leprosy from Brazil (n = 52), Malaysia (n = 31), Myanmar
Xiang-Yang Han   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Prevalence of Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in roadkill armadillos in Brazil

Acta Tropica
To evaluate the prevalence of Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in road killed armadillos identified along Brazilian regions, samples of liver, spleen, muscle, ear, nose and tail were collected on highways from 78 animals. The armadillos were of four different species, Cabassous tatouay, Dasypus novemcinctus, Dasypus septemcinctus and
J Monsalve-Lara   +9 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Two Cases of Leprosy in Siblings Caused by Mycobacterium lepromatosis and Review of the Literature [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2016
We describe two leprosy cases in Mexican siblings caused by a new species Mycobacterium lepromatosis. This is likely the first report of family clustering of this infection. The patients showed severe prolonged leprosy reactions after antimicrobial treatment, raising a challenge for clinical management. The current status of M.
Michael C, Sotiriou   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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