Feasibility of post-exposure-prophylaxis with single-dose rifampicin and identification of high prevalent clusters in villages' hyperendemic for leprosy in Senegal.

Autor: Gilbert Batista, Pauline Dioussé, Papa Mamadou Diagne, Mahamat Cissé, Ibrahima Tito Tamba, Fatou Diop, Fanta Diop, Lahla Fall, Diama Sakho, Mariama Bammo, Ndiaga Guèye, Christa Kasang, Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez, Louis Hyacinthe Zoubi, Madoky Magatte Diop

Publikováno v: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 18, Iss 2, p e0011755 (2024)

IntroductionSenegal is a leprosy low-endemic country with nine villages known to be hyperendemic with a leprosy incidence rate above 1,000 per million inhabitants. We aim to implement a door-to-door screening strategy associated with the administrati

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Leprosy in wild chimpanzees

Autor: Joshua Lynton-Jenkins, Philippe Busso, Charlotte Avanzi, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Markus Ulrich, Jenny E. Jaffe, Ariane Düx, Kimberley J. Hockings, Moussa Gado, Verena J. Schuenemann, Benjamin Mubemba, Sonja Metzger, Marina Ramon, Elena Bersacola, Samba O. Sow, Andrej Benjak, Sebastien Gagneux, Livia V. Patrono, Abílio R. Said, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Irina Morozova, Fabian H. Leendertz, Kamilla Pléh, Stewart T. Cole, Hyacinthe Zoubi, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Roch Christian Johnson, Joana Bessa, Roman M. Wittig, Camille Bonneaud, John S. Spencer, Aissa Regalla, Mamoudou Kodio

Publikováno v: Nature
England
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Humans are considered as the main host for Mycobacterium leprae1, the aetiological agent of leprosy, but spillover has occurred to other mammals that are now maintenance hosts, such as nine-banded armadillos and red squirrels2,3. Although naturally a

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-2023-B21.11116/0000-0009-642C-621.11116/0000-0009-642D-521.11116/0000-0009-642E-421.11116/0000-0009-642F-3