Mycobacterium lepromatosis
National Institutes of Health
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BACKGROUND
Mycobacterium leprae was thought the exclusive causative agent of leprosy until Mycobacterium lepromatosis was…
Introduction The most commonly noted reactions in leprosy patients are type 1 reactions and erythema nodosum leprosum, with some…
Microbiologically speaking, the ancient scourge of leprosy has a new face. Considered a curse for millennia, the causative agent…
A 49-year-old man born on Sinaloa, Mexico, presented to the consult on December 2014 with ulcerations in the abdominal region and…
Significance Leprosy was thought to be exclusively caused by infection of humans by Mycobacterium leprae. In 2008, Han et al…
ABSTRACT Mycobacterium lepromatosis is a newly discovered cause of leprosy. Here, we present a near-complete genome of M…
BACKGROUND
A new leprosy-causing species, namely Mycobacterium lepromatosis, was discovered recently to be the cause of diffuse…
ABSTRACT An 86-year-old female patient from northeast Mexico presented with diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL). Sequence analysis…
ABSTRACT Mycobacterium lepromatosis is a newly discovered leprosy-causing organism. Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of its 16S…
The clinical and histologic experience with 30 patients who had Lucio's phenomenon, and pure and primitive diffuse lepromatosis…