Origin and spread of leprosy in Suriname. A historical and biomedical study

Autor: William R. Faber, Karin Sewpersad, Henk Menke, Charlotte Avanzi, Annemieke Geluk, Els M. Verhard, Maria Tió Coma, Mike Chan, Toine Pieters

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, Vol 4 (2023)

The new world was considered free of leprosy before the arrival of Europeans. In Suriname, historical migration routes suggest that leprosy could have been introduced from West Africa by the slave trade, from Asia by indentured workers, from Europe b

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De-novo Histoid Hansen cases

Autor: Rita Vipul Vora, Abhishek P Pilani, Malay J Mehta, Arvind Chaudhari, Nidhi Patel

Publikováno v: Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 19-22 (2014)

Histoid leprosy is a rare form of multibacillary leprosy with distinct clinical and histopathological features. It is a variant of lepromatous leprosy with a very high bacterial index. It appears in patients as a relapse after dapsone monotherapy, in

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Dapsone Resistance in Leprosy Patients Originally from American Samoa, United States, 2010–2012

Autor: Sergio Araujo, Barbara M. Stryjewska, David M. Scollard, Diana L. Williams

Publikováno v: Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 24, Iss 8, Pp 1584-1585 (2018)

Skin biopsies from US leprosy patients were tested for mutations associated with drug resistance. Dapsone resistance was found in 4 of 6 biopsies from American Samoa patients. No resistance was observed in patients from other origins. The high rate o

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https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2408.180033

Molecular drug susceptibility testing and genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae strains from South America

Autor: Stewart T. Cole, Carlos Rivas, Andrea de Faria Fernandes Belone, Nacarid Aranzazu, Marc Monot, Pushpendra Singh, Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi, Marcos Virmond, Nadine Honoré, Philippe Busso, Maria Esther Villarreal-Olaya

Publikováno v: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2011, 55 (6), pp.2971-3. ⟨10.1128/AAC.00201-11⟩
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, American Society for Microbiology, 2011, 55 (6), pp.2971-3. ⟨10.1128/AAC.00201-11⟩

Possible drug resistance in Mycobacterium leprae strains from Venezuela and three other South American countries was surveyed by molecular methods. None of the 230 strains from new leprosy cases exhibited drug resistance-associated mutations. However

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https://hal-pasteur.archives-ouvertes.fr/pasteur-01370845