ReviewAnnals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials2016
Unsolved matters in leprosy: a descriptive review and call for further research.
Review in Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Measuring endemicity and burden of leprosy across countries and regions: A systematic review and Delphi survey.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Reservoirs and transmission routes of leprosy; A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Biosensor-Based Platforms for the Detection and Screening ofACS infectious diseases · 2026Review
- Decoding leprosy: immune response, clinical manifestations and emerging diagnostic approaches.Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2025Review
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- Influence of Testosterone in Neglected Tropical Diseases: Clinical Aspects in Leprosy and In Vitro Experiments in Leishmaniasis.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- In silico designing of a recombinant multi-epitope antigen for leprosy diagnosis.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2022Article
- Prolonged delays in leprosy case detection in a leprosy hot spot setting in Eastern Ethiopia.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Epidemiological scenario of leprosy in marginalized communities of India: Focus on scheduled tribes.The Indian journal of medical research · 2022Review
- Editorial: Emerging and Re-emerging Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- The Constant Threat of Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Emerging Tropical Diseases: Living on the Edge.Frontiers in tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Comparison of IL-17 and FOXP3+ Levels in Maternal and Children Leprosy Patients in Endemic and Nonendemic Areas.Interdisciplinary perspectives on infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Reanalysis and integration of public microarray datasets reveals novel host genes modulated in leprosy.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2020Article
- Leprosy in the Colombian island of ProvidenciaBiomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2020Article
- Ultra-sensitive detection of Mycobacterium leprae: DNA extraction and PCR assays.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
- Knowledge of and Attitude Toward Leprosy in a Leprosy Endemic District, Eastern Ethiopia: A Community-Based Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2020Article
- Correlation Analysis between Household Hygiene and Sanitation and Nutritional Status and Female Leprosy in Gresik Regency.Dermatology research and practice · 2020Article
- 16S rDNA based skin microbiome data of healthy individuals and leprosy patients from India.Scientific data · 2019Article
- Myelination key factor krox-20 is downregulated in Schwann cells and murine sciatic nerves infected by Mycobacterium leprae.International journal of experimental pathology · 2019Article
- Overview of Cutaneous Mycobacterial Infections.Current tropical medicine reports · 2018Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Leprosy, a chronic mycobacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is an infectious disease that has ravaged human societies throughout millennia. This ancestral pathogen causes disfiguring cutaneous lesions, peripheral nerve injury, ostearticular deformity, limb loss and dysfunction, blindness and stigma. Despite ongoing efforts in interrupting leprosy transmission, large numbers of new cases are persistently identified in many endemic areas. Moreover, at the time of diagnosis, most newly identified cases have considerable neurologic disability. Many challenges remain in our understanding of the epidemiology of leprosy including: (a) the precise mode and route of transmission; (b) the socioeconomic, environmental, and behavioral factors that promote its transmission; and
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