Treatment of leprosy/Hansen's disease in the early 21st century

@article{Worobec2009TreatmentOL,
  title={Treatment of leprosy/Hansen's disease in the early 21st century},
  author={Sophie M. Worobec},
  journal={Dermatologic Therapy},
  year={2009},
  volume={22}
}
  • S. Worobec
  • Published 1 November 2009
  • Medicine, Biology
  • Dermatologic Therapy
Leprosy, or Hansen's disease (HD), is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, a slowly dividing mycobacterium that has evolved to be an intracellular parasite, causing skin lesions and nerve damage. Less than 5% of people exposed to M. leprae develop clinical disease. Host cell‐mediated resistance determines whether an individual will develop paucibacillary or multibacillary disease. Hansen's disease is a worldwide disease with about 150 new cases reported annually in the United States. Effective anti… 
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    International journal of dermatology
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Though histoid leprosy is a very rare type of leProsy, the higher load of lepra bacilli in these cases makes it a concern as a reservoir for leproSy.
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  • Biology, Medicine
    Research and reports in tropical medicine
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The conclusions that have been reached indicate that the reality of leprosy control with the use of combination drug therapy, still needs to be handled with care, even more so as this is just a fragment of the set of people once under medical attention, which also correspond to a parcel of theSet of people affected by the ailment.
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Histoid leprosy: a retrospective clinicopathological study from central Nepal
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Histoid leprosy is a rare variant of lepromatous leProsy characterized by varied morphological and histopathological appearance while having a high bacillary load, whereby these patients may act as a reservoir of infection.
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