A teased fibre technique was used to study 19 biopsies of the index finger branch of the radial cutaneous nerve of leprosy patients and contacts. These were compared with four normal nerves. Five nerves were from patients with preclinical nerve lesions, five from leprosy patients with minimal sensory nerve impairment, and five from contacts of lepromatous leprosy. The extent of demyelination in...

The leprosy control programme in Indonesia is discussed . The epidemiological situation of leprosy is assessed from the statistics of the registered cases and through comparison of several leprosy surveys. In a certain province leprosy showed a marked decline, while in other provinces the prevalences are still high. We need to recognize the limitations of the present measures employed to contro...

Till 2010, several countries have declared less than one leprosy patient among population of 10,000 and themselves feeling as eliminated from leprosy cases. However, new leprosy cases are still appearing from all these countries. In this situation one has to be confident to diagnose leprosy. This review paper highlighted already explored antigens for diagnosis purposes and finally suggested bet...

Leprosy is a skin disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. still problem in the world. Based from WHO, defined age for child womb until of 19 years. The risk factors leprosy children are host, agent, and environment. Nutritional one leprosy. This study an analytical with cross-sectional design to evaluate correlation nutritional status patients based WHO CDC growth charts. 10-14 years group was ...

Leprosy is a multisystem disorder with various spectrum of cutaneous findings. In the initial era of the history of leprosy, mucosal lesions were typical. Of late, mucosal findings have remarkably declined because of early treatment of leprosy. However, oral lesions have eminent epidemiological significance, given their role in disease transmission. Oral findings are more common in multi-bacill...

BACKGROUND Although awareness of the relevance of leprosy and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection is increasing worldwide, several aspects of this co-occurrence are not fully understood. METHODS We describe clinical, pathological, immunological, and therapeutic long-term follow-up of a cohort of 25 individuals with leprosy and HIV infection from Manaus, Amazonas. RESULTS Careful ...

The prevalence of leprosy varies between continents. Likewise, countries within a continent have differing rates of prevalence of leprosy (15). Even countries in which leprosy is endemic may demonstrate variations in leprosy prevalence from one state to another, and even from one district to another within the same state (13 . 14 ._ 15). The reasons for these variations have not been fully expl...

Leprosy control programs would benefit expressively from an easy method to estimate disease prevalence and to assess the effect of leprosy control measures on disease prevalence. Determination of the seroprevalence of antibodies to PGL-I through school children surveys might be a useful indicator of leprosy prevalence at the district level. To investigate whether seropositivity rates could be r...

At the time of publishing the Global Strategy to Further Reduce the Leprosy Burden, it was envisaged that more detailed operational guidelines would be published to ‘enable countries to develop their own country-specific strategies and plans of action’. The plan was turned into reality (albeit later than anticipated) through a Global Forum on Leprosy Control that met in the University of Aberde...

INTRODUCTION The clinical characteristics of women who conceive during leprosy and the association between leprosy and pregnancy are not well known. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 49 pregnant or lactating women diagnosed with leprosy in 2011. RESULTS The patients had a clinical dimorphous form of leprosy (44.9%), no physical incapacity at diagnosis (87.5%), and no complications...