Inoculation site leprosy in a tattoo as a paradoxical reaction following tuberculosis treatment

Autor:	Barry Moran, Joseph Keane, V Reid, F Kelly, L Barnes, P Branagan, MM Fitzgibbon, M McMenamin, Anne Marie McLaughlin, Maria Kane
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	DNA Bacterial Male Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Tuberculosis Adolescent Biopsy Antitubercular Agents Clofazimine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Tuberculosis Pulmonary Mycobacterium leprae Ethambutol Tattooing biology medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Paradoxical reaction biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Dermatology Surgery Leprosy Lepromatous Infectious Diseases Skin biopsy Leprosy business Rifampicin medicine.drug
Zdroj:	The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 20:706-708
ISSN:	1815-7920 1027-3719
DOI:	10.5588/ijtld.15.0236
Popis:	We present a patient who developed inoculation site leprosy in a tattoo, which was confirmed by Mycobacterium leprae DNA sequencing of a polymerase chain reaction product from a skin biopsy. His leprosy became manifest as a paradoxical reaction only after 8 weeks of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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