Tuberculoid leprosy is characterized by increased cellular immunity with localized infection, whereas lepromatous leprosy (LL) patients tend to have more disseminated infection and higher antibody ...

WHILE examining the histology of tuberculoid and lepromatous skin lesions of leprosy, we noted that there were many cells containing acid-fast granules in the cytoplasm, around the granulomatous ...

A scientist’s desperate attempts to prove that Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy landed him on trial, but his insights into the disease’s pathology were eventually vindicated. Login. Subscribe. News ...

To the Editor: The editorial in the February 8 issue ("Transfer Factor and Leprosy") deserves commendation for pointing out the interesting possibilities for therapy of lepromatous leprosy by tran ...

Borderline tuberculoid involves three to 10 lesions with satellites. Tuberculoid leprosy involves one to three sharply outlined, dry, flaky, hairless and erythematous or hypopigmented plaques.

Leprosy, or Hansen's disease, is a chronic and complex infectious illness, dependent in large part upon the individual's immunologic response to the causative organism, Mycobacterium leprae.1 The ...

Borderline tuberculoid leprosy with type 1 reaction can have an acute presentation in persons infected with HIV. This reaction may develop as part of the immune reconstitution inflammatory ...