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 ...

Although leprosy is one of the older infectious diseases described to man, many questions on epidemiology and pathology of the disease and on mechanisms of immune response of the host remain. Upon ...

India is hailed for eliminating leprosy two decades ago, but modern effects of climate stress and poverty may lead to its reappearance might help it reappear June 7, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

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

Leprosy, also called Hansen’s disease, is primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae bacteria. But in 2008, scientists discovered that a similar species, M. lepromatosis, can cause it, too.Leprosy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leprosy results from infection with the unculturable pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, and worldwide approximately 200,000 new cases are reported annually. 1 Multidrug therapy for multibacillary ...

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 ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified ...

Now we know that the leprosy part of the picture is a lot more complicated than we previously realized. Around 200,000 new cases of the disease are reported worldwide every year, though it can now ...