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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2011

Case of diffuse lepromatous leprosy associated with "Mycobacterium lepromatosis".

Lucio Vera-Cabrera, Wendy G Escalante-Fuentes, Minerva Gomez-Flores, Jorge Ocampo-Candiani, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh, Stewart T Cole

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Mechanisms of Linezolid Resistance in Mycobacteria.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  6. Lucio Phenomenon: Sequelae of Neglected Leprosy.Korean journal of family medicine · 2021
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  7. Frontiers in microbiology · 2021
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  8. An unusual case of multibacillary leprosClinical case reports · 2020
    Article
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  10. Identification ofAnnals of dermatology · 2018
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  13. "Lucio's Phenomenon" Associated with Mycobacterium lepromatosis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2016
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  17. Insight into the evolution and origin of leprosy bacilli from the genome sequence of Mycobacterium lepromatosis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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  18. On the age of leprosy.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2014
    Review
  19. Severe leprosy reactions due to Mycobacterium lepromatosis.The American journal of the medical sciences · 2013
    Article
  20. Current approaches and future directions in the treatment of leprosy.Research and reports in tropical medicine · 2012
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Lucio Vera-CabreraServicio de Dermatologia, Hospital Universitario, Madero y Gonzalitos, Colonia Mitras Centro, C.P. 64460, Monterrey, N.L., México. drluciovera@yahoo.com
Wendy G Escalante-Fuentes
Minerva Gomez-Flores
Jorge Ocampo-Candiani
Philippe Busso
Pushpendra Singh
Stewart T Cole
Hospital Universitario Dr José Eleuterio Gonzalez · MXÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An 86-year-old female patient from northeast Mexico presented with diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL). Sequence analysis of four genes (rrs, rpoB, sigA, and hsp65) from the skin biopsy specimen identified "Mycobacterium lepromatosis." This is the first independent confirmation of a case of DLL due to M. lepromatosis.

Indexed as

Aged, 80 and overBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialFemaleHistocytochemistryHumansLeprosy, LepromatousMexicoMicroscopyMycobacteriumSequence Analysis, DNASkinBacterial ProteinsDNA, Bacterial

Identifiers

PMID22012006
PMCPMC3232982
OpenAlexW2152311702

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