When two children were diagnosed with leprosy in 2021, health officials knew there’s active transmission going on involving the biblical-time skin disease that many have thought has already been ...

Five more national leprosy sanitariums during and after World War II have reported administering an experimental drug called "Koha" to residents that caused severe side effects in some patients.

Primary phagocytic defects must be included in the differential diagnosis of recurrent infection and fever in a child and occasionally in an adult. Early diagnosis is essential, because manifestati ...

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Clinical manifestations of leprosy are classified in five types: tuberculoid (TT), borderline TT (BT), borderline (BB), borderline lepromatous (BL) and lepromatous (LL).

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Leprosy displays a spectrum of clinical manifestations, such as lepromatous and tuberculoid leprosy, and type I and II lepra reactions, which are thought to be a reflection of the host's ...

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously thought.