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Rare Case of Lucio Phenomenon Associated With Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in Indonesia

Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences
Lucio phenomenon is a rare leprosy reaction that can occur in untreated or inadequately treated leprosy. It is characterized by erythematous macules and slightly infiltrated plaques which then turn into superficial ulceration and central necrosis. The pathophysiological mechanism remains unclear, but diffuse mycobacterial infiltration and increased ...
Flora Ramona Sigit Prakoeswa, Saiful Hidayat, Ratih Pramuningtyas, Iin Novita Nurhidayati Mahmuda   +3 more
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Identification of the leprosy agent Mycobacterium lepromatosis in Singapore.

Journal of drugs in dermatology : JDD, 2012
A new leprosy-causing species, namely Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was discovered recently to be the cause of diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL) in Mexico. It is unknown whether this organism exists beyond Mexico.We sought to determine the identity of the mycobacteria in the skin tissue of two patients from Singapore who died of DLL.
Xiang Yang, Han, Kurt Clement, Sizer, Hiok-Hee, Tan   +2 more
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A New History of Leprosy: The Global Health Implications of the Discovery of Mycobacterium lepromatosis

2013
These are the abstracts of papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. Mycobacterium lepromatosis, a second species of leprosy, was discovered in 2008. By 2012, subsequent research had confirmed that its age as a "sister" species to M. leprae (previously the only known cause of leprosy in
Green, Monica H., Han, Xiang-Yang, Vollset, Magnus, Cagle, Hugh   +3 more
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Leprosy-like illness in a patient with Mycobacterium lepromatosis from Ontario, Canada.

Journal of drugs in dermatology : JDD, 2012
Here we present the first case of a patient from Ottawa Canada, presenting with leprosy-like illness associated with Mycobacterium lepromatosis. The patient had no history of travel to leprosy-endemic areas or any obvious risk factors. Clinically, the patient presented with an anesthetic maculopapular rash on the trunk, back, and extremities.
Peter G, Jessamine, Marc, Desjardins, Tom, Gillis, David, Scollard, Frances, Jamieson, George, Broukhanski, Pam, Chedore, Anne, McCarthy   +7 more
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Simultaneous detection and differentiation between Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis using novel polymerase chain reaction primers

Journal of Dermatology, 2021
Mukul Sharma, Pushpendra Singh
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Isolation of Mycobacterium lepromatosis and Development of Molecular Diagnostic Assays to Distinguish Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis.

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020
Shannon M Lenz, Ramanuj Lahiri, Linda B Adams   +2 more
exaly  

Impact of Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis on immune reactions and clinical outcomes in Hansen's disease: A single-center retrospective analysis

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2023
Sabrina, Khan, Brandon L, Adler, April W, Armstrong, Ramanuj, Lahiri, Maria T, Ochoa   +4 more
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Effective amelioration of the Lucio phenomenon with adjuvant tofacitinib therapy in a patient with dual infection of Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis: a case report from India

Access Microbiology, 2023
Nayankumar Patel, Itu Singh, Jignaben Padhiyar   +2 more
exaly  

Insight into the evolution and origin of leprosy bacilli from the genome sequence of Mycobacterium lepromatosis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015
Pushpendra Singh, Johannes Krause, Lucio Vera-Cabrera   +2 more
exaly  

Mutations in the drug resistance-determining region of Mycobacterium lepromatosis isolated from leprosy patients in Mexico

Journal of Dermatology, 2016
Mary Fafutis-Morris, Yuji Miyamoto, Masanori Kai   +2 more
exaly