Leprosy, a chronic infection caused by M. leprae, has complex transmission problem that makes eradication programs difficult. New cases and ongoing of leprosy in endemic areas make individuals living environments vulnerable to leprosy. This can be the dysregulation immune system leprosy-endemic areas. Although number male patients is higher, female have more impact on family health status due c...

leprosy is an ancient deforming disease caused by mycobacterium leprae, which is still poorly understood and often feared by the general public and even by some in the health care professions fortunately, the outlook for patients has dramatically improved over the last three decades with the introduction of multi-drug treatment and management strategies that have somewhat diminished the stigma ...

leprosy is an ancient disease, known from south asia since at least 2000 bce. while there is no physical evidence of this disease in the region before about 50 ce, five different words are translated as “leprosy” in mesopotamian texts and some of them occur frequently. based on the texts, one word (garāṣu) is rarely used and there is evidence that the other four words relate to diseases that we...

Background Leprosy is one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTD) experiencing relative stagnancy in global number new cases. Objective This study aims to find proportion antimicrobial resistance clinical specimens leprosy patients attending a tertiary care Institute South India. Materials and methods Skin biopsy (31 Nos) were tested by Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for identification M. lep...

Leprosy is an infectious disease that can be acute and chronic caused by Mycobacterium leprae which obligate intracellular. Lack of knowledge resulted in the lack information on leprosy. The public's ignorance about early detection prevention leprosy causes number people with to increase. This community service aims increase public motivate maintain a clean healthy lifestyle. method used conduc...

The emergence of drug resistance in leprosy is a major hurdle in leprosy elimination programme. Although the problem of drug resistance is presently not acute, it is important that we collect data more systematically and monitor the trend carefully so that effective measures to combat this problem can be developed. The present study aimed at the explication of cross resistance of rifabutin and ...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this retrospective study was to determine the prevalence of leprosy in families, and the secondary objective was to study the clinicoepidemiological features of leprosy in families. RESULTS There were a total of 901 cases of leprosy who attended our leprosy centre during this 18 year period. There were 49 cases of leprosy in this group whose family members ...

Coexistence of two immunologically diverse forms of leprosy in an individual is very rare. Herein, we report a case of association of borderline tuberculoid (BT) leprosy with histoid leprosy (HL) in a young immune competent male. He was diagnosed as a case of BT leprosy 10 years ago and now presented with multiple papules and nodules. Histopathological examination of biopsy taken from patch and...

BACKGROUND Although leprosy is one of the oldest diseases known to humanity, it remains largely misunderstood. Misconceptions about leprosy lead to stigma towards people with the disease. This study aimed at exploring the knowledge, perceptions and attitudes regarding leprosy in rural Cameroon. METHODS We carried out a cross-sectional community survey of 233 respondents aged 15-75 years, free...