Consequently, patients develop a disseminated multi-bacillary disease. In tuberculoid leprosy, proficient APC function exists, positive proliferative responses are detected and high expression levels ...

Editor,—Haemangiomas of the uveal tract are most frequently located in the choroid. Diffuse choroidal haemangiomas are seen generally in patients with Sturge–Weber syndrome (encephalofacial ...

According to the clinical spectrum proposed by Ridley and Jopling (1966), leprosy is characterized by two polar forms: a paucibacillary tuberculoid (TT ... many questions on epidemiology and pathology ...

When Sharadindu Ghosh* was young, he was taught not to speak about his father’s leprosy. He, like many others, grew up in the lanes of Jamuria Leprosy Colony, in West Bengal, facing stigma and ...

Visakhapatnam: Visakhapatnam had reported 299 cases of leprosy in 2019. A recent study analysing 68 of these cases, identified a persistent burden of leprosy-related disabilities, despite active ...

Research out today reveals that a form of leprosy was stalking people in the Americas long before Europeans arrived. A large international team of scientists conducted the study, published ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS ...

In the BDQ4LEP study, bedaquiline monotherapy cleared M. leprae by day 56. These findings indicate that bedaquiline has potential as a leprosy treatment and merits further study.

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the disease was present in Argentina and Canada much earlier ...

In this report, correspondent ANIMASAHUN SALMAN sheds light on the harrowing reality faced by the children of leprosy patients living in Amanawa Camp, Sokoto State Health workers have often cited ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur ...

Leprosy is a neglected disease, mainly caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, affecting thousands of people worldwide: approximately 200,000 new cases of leprosy are reported each year ...