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Characterization of Mycobacterium leprae Genotypes in China--Identification of a New Polymorphism C251T in the 16S rRNA Gene. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Leprosy continues to be prevalent in some mountainous regions of China, and genotypes of leprosy strains endemic to the country are not known. Mycobacterium lepromatosis is a new species that was discovered in Mexico in 2008, and it remains unclear ...
Youhua Yuan, Yan Wen, Yuangang You, Yan Xing, Huanying Li, Xiaoman Weng, Nan Wu, Shuang Liu, Shanshan Zhang, Wenhong Zhang, Ying Zhang   +10 more
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Long-term ulcerations caused by Mycobacterium lepromatosis

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2020
Patients with leprosy rarely present ulcerated lesions that can appear during reactional states like Lucio's phenomenon (LP), as in our case. LP is a rare complication of multibacillary leprosy due to massive bacilli invasion of endothelial cells causing
Ilaria Trave, Gianfranco Barabino, Alberto Cavalchini, Aurora Parodi   +3 more
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Pathologie et archéologie de la lèpre : une maladie infectieuse chronique

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2022
Leprosy is an infectious disease due to the bacilli Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis and it has affected mankind since the 4th millennium BC. It has a long incubation period and its evolution is that of a chronic infection.
Pascal Sellier
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Mycobacterium Species Related to M. leprae and M. lepromatosis from Cows with Bovine Nodular Thelitis

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
Bovine nodular thelitis is a granulomatous dermatitis associated with infection with acid-fast bacteria. To identify the mycobacterium responsible for this infection, we conducted phylogenetic investigations based on partial sequencing of 6 genes.
Didier Pin, Véronique Guérin-Faublée, Virginie Garreau, Franck Breysse, Oana Dumitrescu, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Gerard Lina   +6 more
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Lepra: Da Antiguidade aos Nossos Tempos

Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Dermatologia e Venereologia, 2020
A lepra é uma doença infecciosa, causada pelos bacilos Mycobacterium leprae e Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Atinge de forma preferencial a pele e os nervos periféricos.
Atanásio Máquina, Alexandre Catarino, Leandro Silva, Goreti Catorze, Lurdes Ferreira, Isabel Viana   +5 more
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Comportamiento epidemiológico de la lepra en Costa Rica, de 2012 al 2017

Revista Clínica de la Escuela de Medicina UCR-HSJD, 2018
La lepra es una patología infecciosa crónica propia del ser humano, de evolución lenta, curable, producida por Mycobacterium leprae y Mycobacterium lepromatosis, que afecta principalmente a piel y sistema nervioso periférico.
Ana Rivera Chavarria, Azálea Espinoza Aguirre   +1 more
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Highly Reduced Genome of the New Species Mycobacterium uberis, the Causative Agent of Nodular Thelitis and Tuberculoid Scrotitis in Livestock and a Close Relative of the Leprosy Bacilli

mSphere, 2018
Nodular thelitis is a chronic enzootic infection affecting dairy cows and goats. The causative agent was recently shown to be related to the leprosy-causing bacilli Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis.
Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Yvonne Benito, Franck Breysse, Christophe Chartier, Maria-Laura Boschiroli, Christine Fourichon, Lorraine Michelet, Didier Pin, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Pierre Bruyere, Oana Dumitrescu, Stewart T. Cole, Gerard Lina   +13 more
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British Red Squirrels Remain the Only Known Wild Rodent Host for Leprosy Bacilli

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019
Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in the British Isles are the most recently discovered animal reservoir for the leprosy bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis.
Anna-Katarina Schilling, Anna-Katarina Schilling, Charlotte Avanzi, Rainer G. Ulrich, Philippe Busso, Benoit Pisanu, Benoit Pisanu, Nicola Ferrari, Claudia Romeo, Maria Vittoria Mazzamuto, Joyce McLuckie, Craig M. Shuttleworth, Jorge Del-Pozo, Peter W. W. Lurz, Wendy G. Escalante-Fuentes, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani, Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Karen Stevenson, Jean-Louis Chapuis, Anna L. Meredith, Anna L. Meredith, Stewart T. Cole, Stewart T. Cole   +22 more
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De Novo Histoid Leprosy Mimicking Xanthoma Disseminatum in a Malawian Male

Proceedings
Background: Leprosy is a chronic infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis with protean mucocutaneous manifestations [...]
Agnes Ramadimetja Sema-Ramashala, Ramolapo Antony Molapo   +1 more
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In silico designing of a recombinant multi-epitope antigen for leprosy diagnosis

Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 2022
Background Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Most of the affected population lives in low-income countries and may take up to 10 years to show any clinical signs, which is how physicians diagnose it.
Marcela Rezende Lemes, Thaís Cristina Vilela Rodrigues, Arun Kumar Jaiswal, Sandeep Tiwari, Helioswilton Sales-Campos, Leonardo Eurípedes Andrade-Silva, Carlo Jose Freire Oliveira, Vasco Azevedo, Virmondes Rodrigues, Siomar C. Soares, Marcos Vinicius da Silva   +10 more
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