ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2017
Mycobacterium lepromatosis Lepromatous Leprosy in US Citizen Who Traveled to Disease-Endemic Areas.
Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Systematic Review of Hansen Disease Attributed to Mycobacterium lepromatosis.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Pooled it
- Diagnostic Value of 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene Polymerase Chain Reaction/Sanger Sequencing in Clinical Practice.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021Article
- Review
- Isolation of Mycobacterium lepromatosis and Development of Molecular Diagnostic Assays to Distinguish Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Article
- 16S rRNA Gene PCR/Sequencing of Cerebrospinal Fluid in the Diagnosis of Post-operative Meningitis.Access microbiology · 2020Article
- Cutaneous leprosy in Central Florida man with significant armadillo exposure.BMJ case reports · 2019Article
- Mycobacterium lepromatosis Lepromatous Leprosy in US Citizen Who Traveled to Disease-Endemic Areas.Emerging infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Major risk factors for leprosy in a non-endemic area of the United States: A case series.IDCases · 2019Article
- Identification ofAnnals of dermatology · 2018Article
- Mycobacterium lepromatosis Lepromatous Leprosy in US Citizen Who Traveled to Disease-Endemic Areas.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Article
- Increasing Virulence in Leprosy Indicated by Global Mycobacterium spp.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Article
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Abstract
We report Mycobacterium lepromatosis infection in a US-born person with an extensive international travel history. Clinical symptoms, histopathology, and management are similar to those of infections caused by M. leprae. Clinicians should consider this pathogen in the diagnosis of patients with symptoms of leprosy who have traveled to endemic areas.
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