Histoid leprosy is a variant of lepromatous leprosy, which develops as a result of resistance to dapsone monotherapy. Here we report two cases of lepromatous leprosy of histoid type, one with typical and another with atypical presentations.

In the early days of leprosy care, with very little in the way of chemical treatment, the recognised way of treating leprosy was to remove people from their homes and put them into leprosaria. The 1897 Leprosy Congress recommended that leprosy could be prevented by isolation. They took as their model for leprosy control the model Hansen had set up in Norway consisting of compulsory registration...

BACKGROUND A lot of time and money was needed during the diagnosis and treatment process of leprosy, the delayed leprosy would also impair the labor capability of patients as well, and these put a heavy burden for the leprosy patients. The migrant leprosy patient is a special group and need more concern. Our goal was to assess the economic burden of leprosy on migrant and resident patient popul...

America, was referred to our dermatology department in Spain because of a 6month history of nonpruriginous lesions that were unresponsive to local or oral corticosteroid treatment. He had been living in Spain for 4 years. Examination showed symmetric, annular or homogeneous erythematous plaques on his trunk and extremities (Figure 1). We suspected Hansen disease (leprosy) because the lesions sh...

WIM H. VAN BRAKEL*, PAUL SAUNDERSON**, VANAJA SHETTY***, J. WIM BRANDSMA****, ERIK POST*****, REMKE JELLEMA****** & JASON MCKNIGHT******* *Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Leprosy Unit, Amsterdam, Netherlands **American Leprosy Missions, Ålesund, Norway ***The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, India ****ALERT, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia *****German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association, ...

e i m t i ( p t c Leprosy is an important communicable disease. Despite aggressive control and eradication programs and rapidly developing economies, countries such as India and Brazil continue to be large reservoirs for spread of disease. Leprosy amongst children accounts for approximately 10% of all cases in endemic regions. In 2010, the coefficient of detection of leprosy in Brazil was 18.3/...

OBJECTIVE to analyze the meanings of leprosy for people treated during the sulfonic and multidrug therapy periods. METHOD qualitative nature study based on the Vigotski's historical-cultural approach, which guided the production and analysis of data. It included eight respondents who have had leprosy and were submitted to sulfonic and multidrug therapy treatments. The participants are also me...

Leprosy is a public health problem in Brazil. Epidemiological control actions are based on the diagnosis and treatment of leprosy patients and household contact surveillance. Serological tests for leprosy could identify from among the contacts those at greater risk of developing leprosy in the future. ML Flow was administered to 2,840 household contacts of new leprosy cases diagnosed from Octob...

we describe a rapid, simple, and reliable procedure for routine isolation of mycobacterium leprae dna from slit-skin swab specimens. this one-step dna extraction method is based on the utilization of chelexr 100, a chelating ion exchange resin. slit-skin swab specimens from seven untreated leprosy patients at baba baghi leprosy hospital in iran were processed by this procedure. the polymerase c...

Integration of leprosy control into general health services (GHS) has gained much wider acceptance. Integration policies and efforts have usually been directed towards taking leprosy services to general health services. “Reverse integration” means bringing other health care services into existing leprosy services. This paper discusses the process of reverse integration in a missionary hospital ...