Displaying items by tag: leprosy Prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infection among leprosy patients in a leprosy-endemic region of central Brazil José María Hernández Ramos; Ágabo Macêdo Costa e Silva; Regina Maria Bringel Martins; Francisco José Dutra Souto PAGE: 632-634 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500019 Leprosy reactions: the effect of gender and household contacts Giuseppe Mastrangelo; Joaquim da Silva Neto; Gilberto Valentim da Silva; Luca Scoizzato; Emanuela Fadda; Monique Dallapicola; Ana Luiza Folleto; Luca Cegolon PAGE: 92-96 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000100015 Histopathological examination of nerve samples from pure neural leprosy patients: obtaining maximum information to improve diagnostic efficiency Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes; Leila Chimelli; Márcia Rodrigues Jardim; Robson Teixeira Vital; José Augusto da Costa Nery; Suzana Corte-Real; Mariana Andréa Vilas Boas Hacker; Euzenir Nunes Sarno PAGE: 246-253 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000200015 Leprosy frequency in the world, 1999-2010 Maria Lúcia Fernandes Penna; Gerson Oliveira Penna PAGE: 3-12 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900002 Hansen's disease: a vanishing disease? Sinésio Talhari; Maria Aparecida de Faria Grossi; Maria Leide WDR de Oliveira; Bernardo Gontijo; Carolina Talhari ; Gerson Oliveira Penna PAGE: 13-16 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900003 Historic aspects of human susceptibility to leprosy and the risk of conjugal transmission M Patricia Joyce PAGE: 17-21 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900004 Leprosy, a neglected disease that causes a wide variety of clinical conditions in tropical countries Norma Tiraboschi Foss; Ana Carolina Fragoso Motta PAGE: 28-33 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900006 A clinical trial for uniform multidrug therapy for leprosy patients in Brazil: rationale and design Gerson Oliveira Penna ; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Rossilene Cruz; Heitor de Sá Gonçalves; Maria Lúcia Fernandes Penna; Samira Bührer-Sékula PAGE: 22-27 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900005 Erythema multiforme in leprosy Alice Machado Miranda ; Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes; José Augusto Costa Nery; Anna Maria Sales; Mario José dos Santos Pereira; Euzenir Nunes Sarno PAGE: 34-42 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900007 The role of human T cell lymphotrophic virus type 1, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus coinfections in leprosy Paulo Roberto Lima MachadoI, II, +; Warren D JohnsonIII; Marshall J GlesbyIV PAGE: 43-48 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900008 Characteristics of leprosy diagnosed through the surveillance of contacts: a comparison with index cases in Rio de Janeiro, 1987-2010 Mariana de Andrea Hacker; Nadia Cristina Duppre; José Augusto Costa Nery; Anna Maria Sales; Euzenir Nunes Sarno PAGE: 49-54 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900009 Unveiling healthy carriers and subclinical infections among household contacts of leprosy patients who play potential roles in the disease chain of transmission Sérgio Araújo; Janaína Lobato; Érica de Melo Reis; Dulcinéa Oliveira Bernardes Souza; Maria Aparecida Gonçalves; Adeilson Vieira Costa; Luiz Ricardo Goulart ; Isabela Maria Bernardes Goulart PAGE: 55-59 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900010 High rates of undiagnosed leprosy and subclinical infection amongst school children in the Amazon Region Josafá Gonçalves Barreto; Layana de Souza Guimarães; Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade; Patricia Sammarco Rosa; Claudio Guedes Salgado PAGE: 60-67 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900011 Brazilian clinical trial of uniform multidrug therapy for leprosy patients - the correlation between clinical disease types and adverse effects Heitor de Sá Gonçalves ; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Samira Bührer-Sékula; Rossilene Cruz; Paulo Cesar Almeida; Maria Elisabete Amaral de Moraes; Gerson Oliveira Penna PAGE: 74-78 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900013 Identification of serological biomarkers of infection, disease progression and treatment efficacy for leprosy John S Spencer; Malcolm S Duthie; Annemieke Geluk; Marivic F Balagon; Hee Jin Kim; William H Wheat; Delphi Chatterjee; Mary Jackson; Wei Li; Jade N Kurihara; Armi Maghanoy; Irene Mallari; Paul Saunderson; Patrick J Brennan; Hazel M Dockrell PAGE: 79-89 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900014 Serologic follow-up of IgG responses against recombinant mycobacterial proteins ML0405, ML2331 and LID-1 in a leprosy hyperendemic area in Venezuela Elsa Rada; Malcolm S Duthie; Steven G Reed; Nacarid Aranzazu; Jacinto Convit PAGE: 90-94 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900015 Seroreactivity to new Mycobacterium leprae protein antigens in different leprosy-endemic regions in Brazil Emerith Mayra Hungria; Regiane Morillas de Oliveira; Ana Lúcia Osório Maroclo de Souza; Maurício Barcelos Costa; Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza; Eliane Aparecida Silva; Fátima Regina Vilani Moreno; Maria Esther Salles Nogueira; Maria Renata Sales Nogueira Costa; Sônia Maria Usó Ruiz Silva; Samira Bührer-Sékula; Steven G Reed; Malcolm S Duthie; Mariane Martins de Araújo Stefani PAGE: 104-111 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900017 Mycobacterium leprae virulence-associated peptides are indicators of exposure to M. leprae in Brazil, Ethiopia and Nepal Kidist Bobosha; Sheila Tuyet Tang; Jolien J van der Ploeg-van Schip; Yonas Bekele; Marcia VSB Martins; Ole Lund; Kees LMC Franken; Saraswoti Khadge; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Heitor de Sá Gonçalves: Jemal Hussien; Pratibha Thapa: Chhatra B Kunwar; Deanna A Hagge; Abraham Aseffa; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani; Geraldo MB Pereira; Tom HM Ottenhoff; Annemieke Geluk PAGE: 112-123 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900018 Comparison of two rapid tests for anti-phenolic glycolipid-I serology in Brazil and Nepal Mariane Martins de Araújo Stefani; Adriano Badotti Grassi; Lucas Henrique Sampaio; Ana Lúcia Osório Maroclo de Sousa; Maurício Barcelos Costa; Pauline Scheelbeek; Kapil D Neupane; Deanna A Hagge; Murdo Macdonald; Sang-Nae Cho; Linda Oskam; Samira Bührer-Sékula PAGE: 124-131 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900019 Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae present on Ziehl-Neelsen-stained microscopic slides and in skin biopsy samples from leprosy patients in different geographic regions of Brazil Amanda Nogueira Brum Fontes; Harrison Magdinier Gomes; Marcelo Ivens de Araujo; Edson Cláudio Araripe de Albuquerque; Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Baptista; Maria Manuela da Fonseca Moura; Denise Silva Rezende; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani; Flávio Alves Lara; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Heitor de Sá Gonçalves; Norma Lucena-Silva; Euzenir Nunes Sarno; Varalakshmi D Vissa; Patrick J Brennan; Philip Noel Suffys PAGE: 143-149 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900021 Association analysis of human leukocyte antigen class II (DRB1) alleles with leprosy in individuals from São Luís, state of Maranhão, Brazil Rita da Graça Carvalhal Frazão Corrêa ; Dorlene Maria Cardoso de Aquino; Arlene de Jesus Mendes Caldas; Humberto de Oliveira Serra; Fábio França Silva; Maxwellem de Jesus Costa Ferreira; Elton Jonh Freitas Santos; Emygdia Rosa Rêgo Barros Pires Leal Mesquita PAGE: 150-155 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900022 Deciphering the contribution of lipid droplets in leprosy: multifunctional organelles with roles in Mycobacterium leprae pathogenesis Katherine Antunes de Mattos; Euzenir Nunes Sarno; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani; Patricia T Bozza PAGE: 156-166 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900023 Mycobacterial laminin-binding histone-like protein mediates collagen-dependent cytoadherence André Alves Dias; Dominique Raze; Cristiana Soares de Lima; Maria Angela de Melo Marques; Hervé Drobecq; Anne-Sophie Debrie; Michelle Lopes Ribeiro-Guimarães; Franck Biet; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani PAGE: 174-182 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900025 Increased hepcidin expression in multibacillary leprosy Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza; Tatiana Salles de Souza Malaspina; Ana Paula Campanelli; Cássio Ghidella; Somei Ura; Dirceu Dalpino; Dejair Caitano do Nascimento; Ana Carla Pereira Latini PAGE: 183-189 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900026 Mycobacterium leprae in six-banded (Euphractus sexcinctus) and nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Northeast Brazil Cristiane Cunha Frota; Luana Nepomuceno Costa Lima; Adalgiza da Silva Rocha; Philip Noel Suffys; Benedito Neilson Rolim; Laura Cunha Rodrigues; Maurício Lima Barreto; Carl Kendall; Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr PAGE: 209-213 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900029 Leprosy exposure, infection and disease: a 25-year surveillance study of leprosy patient contacts Euzenir Nunes Sarno; Nadia Cristina Duppre; Anna Maria Sales; Mariana Andréa Hacker; José Augusto Nery; Haroldo José de Matos PAGE: 1054-1059 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000800015 Survey to identify Mycobacterium leprae-infected household contacts of patients from prevalent regions of leprosy in Colombia N Cardona-Castro; JC Beltrán-Alzate; R Manrique-Hernández PAGE: 332-336 | DOI: S0074-02762008000400003 Colonization by Helicobacter pylori of leprosy patients in Spain: immunomodulation to low molecular weight antigens of H. pylori Neluka Fernando; Pedro Torres; Dino Vaira; John Holton PAGE: 682-286 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500014 Mycobacterium leprae downregulates the expression of PHEX in Schwann cells and osteoblasts Sandra R Boiça Silva; Antônio J Tempone; Tatiana P Silva; Maria Renata SN Costa; Geraldo MB Pereira; Flávio A Lara; Maria Cristina V Pessolani; Danuza Esquenazi PAGE: 627-632 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500005 Armadillo meat intake was not associated with leprosy in a case control study, Curitiba (Brazil) Juliano Vilaverde Schmitt; Ivone Tod Dechandt; Gisele Dopke; Maria Luiza Ribas; Felipe Bochnia Cerci; Juliana Maria Zucco Viesi; Helena Zenedin Marchioro; Mariana Martins Bardou Zunino; Hélio Amante Miot PAGE: 857-862 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000700003 Early detection of leprosy by examination of household contacts, determination of serum anti-PGL-1 antibodies and consanguinity Renata Bazan-Furini; Ana Carolina F Motta; João Carlos L Simão; Daniela Chaves Tarquínio; Wilson Marques Jr; Marcello Henrique N Barbosa; Norma Tiraboschi Foss PAGE: 536-540 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500003 Genetics of leprosy reactions: an overview Vinicius Fava; Marianna Orlova; Aurélie Cobat; Alexandre Alcaïs; Marcelo Mira; Erwin Schurr PAGE: 132-142 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900020 Cutaneous lesions sensory impairment recovery and nerve regeneration in leprosy patients Ximena Illarramendi; Emanuel Rangel; Alice Machado Miranda; Ana Claudia Ribeiro de Castro; Giselle de Oliveira Magalhães; Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes PAGE: 68-73 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900012 New sonographic measures of peripheral nerves: a tool for the diagnosis of peripheral nerve involvement in leprosy Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade, Marcello Henrique Nogueira-Barbosa, Helena Barbosa Lugão, Renata Bazan Furini, Wilson Marques Júnior, Norma Tiraboschi Foss PAGE: 257-262 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108032013001 Detection of Mycobacterium leprae in saliva and the evaluation of oral sensitivity in patients with leprosy Fernanda Borowsky da Rosa, Victor Costa de Souza, Tatiana Amaral Pires de Almeida, Valdinete Alves do Nascimento, Felicien Gonçalves Vásquez, Maria da Graça Souza Cunha, Felipe Gomes Naveca PAGE: 572-577 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108052013006 Identification of clinical, epidemiological and laboratory risk factors for leprosy reactions during and after multidrug therapy Douglas Eulálio Antunes, Sergio Araujo, Gabriela Porto Ferreira, Ana Carolina Sousa Rodrigues da Cunha, Adeilson Vieira da Costa, Maria Aparecida Gonçalves, Isabela Maria Bernardes Goulart PAGE: 901-908 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130222 Examining ERBB2 as a candidate gene for susceptibility to leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in Brazil Sérgio Ricardo Fernandes Araújo, Sarra Elisabeth Jamieson, Kathryn Margaret Dupnik, Glória Regina Monteiro, Maurício Lisboa Nobre, Márcia Sousa Dias, Pedro Bezerra Trindade Neto, Maria do Carmo Palmeira Queiroz, Carlos Eduardo Maia Gomes, Jenefer Mary Blackwell, Selma Maria Bezerra Jeronimo PAGE: 182-188 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130344 Spatial Analysis of the Distribution of Leprosy in the State of Ceará, Northeast Brazil Ana Cláudia Dorta Montenegro, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr-Pontes, Maurício Lima Barreto, Hermann Feldmeier PAGE: 683-686 Serial measurement of the circulating levels of tumour necrosis factor and its soluble receptors 1 and 2 for monitoring leprosy patients during multidrug treatment Rosane Dias Costa, Vanessa Amaral Mendonça, Frederico Marianetti Soriani, Sandra Lyon, Rachel Adriana Penido, Ana Maria Duarte Dias Costa, Marina Dias Costa, Fabio de Souza Terra, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Carlos Mauricio de Figueiredo Antunes, Antonio Lúcio Teixeira PAGE: 1051-1056 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130240 Activation and cytokine profile of monocyte derived dendritic cells in leprosy: in vitro stimulation by sonicated Mycobacterium leprae induces decreased level of IL-12p70 in lepromatous leprosy André Flores Braga, Daniela Ferraz Moretto, Patrícia Gigliotti, Mariela Peruchi, Fátima Regina Vilani-Moreno, Ana Paula Campanelli, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Anand Iyer, Pranab Kumar Das, Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza PAGE: 655-661 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140230 Widespread nasal carriage of Mycobacterium leprae among a healthy population in a hyperendemic region of northeastern Brazil Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, Cristiane Cunha Frota, Rosa Maria Salani Mota, Rosa Livia Freitas Almeida, Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes, Heitor de Sá Gonçalves, Laura Cunha Rodrigues, Carl Kendall, Ligia Kerr PAGE: 898-905 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150178 Association of the solute carrier family 11 member 1 gene polymorphisms with susceptibility to leprosy in a Brazilian sample Maria José Franco Brochado, Maria Fernanda Chociay Gatti, Marco Antônio Zago, Ana Maria Roselino PAGE: 101-105 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150326 Leprosy in children and adolescents under 15 years old in an urban centre in Brazil Selton Diniz Santos, Gerson Oliveira Penna, Maria da Conceição Nascimento Costa, Marcio Santos Natividade, Maria Glória Teixeira PAGE: 359-364 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160002 The involvement of endothelial mediators in leprosy Maria Renata Sales Nogueira, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Maria Esther Salles Nogueira PAGE: 635-641 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160122 Polymorphisms in genes TLR1, 2 and 4 are associated with differential cytokine and chemokine serum production in patients with leprosy Nadja de Lima Santana, Jamile Leão Rêgo, Joyce Moura Oliveira, Lucas Frederico de Almeida, Marcos Braz, Lídia Maria Medeiros Machado, Paulo Roberto Lima Machado, Léa Cristina Castellucci PAGE: 260-268 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160366 A tale of two neglected tropical infections: using GIS to assess the spatial and temporal overlap of schistosomiasis and leprosy in a region of Minas Gerais, Brazil David Alexander Phillips, José Antonio Ferreira, Deidra Ansah, Herica SA Teixeira, Uriel Kitron, Thelma de Filippis, Marcelo H de Alcântara, Jessica K Fairley PAGE: 275-280 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160395 Towards leprosy elimination by 2020: forecasts of epidemiological indicators of leprosy in Corrientes, a province of northeastern Argentina that is a pioneer in leprosy elimination Elisa Petri de Odriozola, Ana María Quintana, Victor González, Roque Antonio Pasetto, María Eugenia Utgés, Octavio Augusto Bruzzone, María Rosa Arnaiz PAGE: 419-427 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160490 Evidence of hidden leprosy in a supposedly low endemic area of Brazil Fred Bernardes Filho, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Marcel Nani Leite, Thania Loyola Cordeiro Abi-Rached, Sebastian Vernal, Moises Batista da Silva, Josafá Gonçalves Barreto, John Stewart Spencer, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170173 ELISA-based assay of immunoglobulin G antibodies against mammalian cell entry 1A (Mce1A) protein: a novel diagnostic approach for leprosy Filipe R Lima, Iukary Takenami, Maurílio AL Cavalcanti, Lee W Riley, Sérgio Arruda DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160549 Natural environmental water sources in endemic regions of northeastern Brazil are potential reservoirs of viable Mycobacterium leprae Maria Luisa Bezerra de Macedo Arraes, Maísa Viana de Holanda, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, José Antônio Beltrão Sabadia, Cynthia Romariz Duarte, Rosa Livia Freitas Almeida, Carl Kendall, Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr, Cristiane Cunha Frota DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170117 Specific antigen serologic tests in leprosy: implications for epidemiological surveillance of leprosy cases and household contacts Ana Paula Mendes Carvalho, Angélica da Conceição Oliveira Coelho, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Francisco Carlos Félix Lana PAGE: 609-616 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160505 Utility of immunoglobulin isotypes against LID-1 and NDO-LID for, particularly IgG1, confirming the diagnosis of multibacillary leprosy Pedro Henrique Ferreira Marçal, Lúcia Alves de Oliveira Fraga, Ana Márcia Menezes de Mattos, Laura Menegati, Angélica da Conceição Oliveira Coelho, Roberta Olmo Pinheiro, Euzenir Nunes Sarno, Malcolm S Duthie, Henrique Couto Teixeira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170467 Effect of Mycobacterium leprae on neurotrophins expression in human Schwann cells and mouse sciatic nerves Maria Renata Sales Nogueira, Nádia Ghinelli Amôr, Letícia Baccaro Michellin, Milton Cury Filho, Patrícia Sammarco Rosa, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Luciana Silva Rodrigues, Robertha Mariana Rodrigues Lemes, Flavio Alves Lara, Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200075 Polymorphisms in the TGFB1 and IL2RA genes are associated with clinical forms of leprosy in Brazilian population Rodrigo Mendes de Camargo, Weber Laurentino da Silva, Priscila Medeiros,Andrea de Faria Fernandes Belone, Ana Carla Pereira Latini DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180274 Fibrosis: a distinguishing feature in the pathology of neural leprosy Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes, Márcia Rodrigues Jardim, Robson Teixeira Vital, Bernardo Miguel de Oliveira Pascarelli, José Augusto da Costa Nery, Thaís Porto Amadeu, Anna Maria Sales, Eduardo Alves Freire da Costa, Euzenir Nunes Sarno DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190056 Expression of NLRP3 inflammasome in leprosy indicates immune evasion of Mycobacterium leprae Ana Luisa Gomes Mendes, Heloísa Di Matteo Joaquim, Mara Inês Stefanini Zamae, Ramon Meira Assis, Jéssica Renata de Moura Peixoto, Margarida Maria Gomes de Araújo, Antônio Carlos Martins Guedes, Edward José Oliveira, Vanessa Peruhype Magalhães, Marcelo Antônio Pascoal-Xavier DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190324 Accuracy of rapid point-of-care serological tests for leprosy diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis Carmen Phang Romero, Rodolfo Castro, Pedro Emmanuel A do Brasil, Daniella R Pereira, Roberta Olmo Pinheiro, Cristiana M Toscano, Maria Regina Fernandes de Oliveira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220317 Association of CD209 (DC-SIGN) rs735240 SNV with paucibacillary leprosy in the Brazilian population and its functional effects Giovanna Valle Germano, André Flores Braga, Rodrigo Mendes de Camargo, Priscila Betoni Ballalai, Ohanna Cavalcanti Bezerra, Fernanda Saloum de Neves Manta, Andréa de Faria Fernandes Belone, Cleverson Teixeira Soares, Pranab Kumar Das, Milton Ozório Moraes, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Vânia Niéto Brito de Souza DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220014 Design of a specific peptide against phenolic glycolipid-1 from Mycobacterium leprae and its implications in leprosy bacilli entry Nelson Enrique Arenas, Gilles Pieffet, Cristian Rocha-Roa, Martha Inírida Guerrero DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220025 Evaluation of the influence of genetic variants in Cereblon gene on the response to the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum with thalidomide Perpétua do Socorro Silva Costa, Miriãn Ferrão Maciel-Fiuza, Thayne Woycinck Kowalski, Lucas Rosa Fraga, Mariléa Furtado Feira, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Daniele Iop de Oliveira Caldoncelli, Maria Irismar da Silva Silveira, Lavínia Schuler-Faccini, Fernanda Sales Luiz Vianna DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220039 Heterogeneous persistence of Mycobacterium leprae in oral and nasal mucosa of multibacillary patients during multidrug therapy Arthur da Silva Neumann, Amanda Nogueira Brum Fontes, Márcia Quinhones Pires Lopes, Philip Noel Suffys, Milton Ozório Moraes, Flávio Alves Lara DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220058 Different profiles of chemokines, cytokines and cell growth factors in plasma samples from patients with leprosy, leprosy reactions and households contacts Jairo Campos de Carvalho, Marcelo Antônio Pascoal-Xavier, Marcelo Grossi Araújo, Andrea Teixeira-Carvalho, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Vanessa Peruhype-Magalhães, Jordana Grazziela Alves Coelho-dos-Reis, Márcio Sobreira Silva Araújo DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230129 Iron and vitamin D intake on a diet are able to modify the in vitro immune response to Mycobacterium leprae Bruna Letícia Martins, Jonatas Perico, Daniele Ferreira de Faria Bertoluci, Adriana Sierra Assencio Almeida Barbosa, Patricia Sammarco Rosa, Maria Renata Sales Nogueira, Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza, Ana Carla Pereira Latini DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230178
Prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infection among leprosy patients in a leprosy-endemic region of central Brazil José María Hernández Ramos; Ágabo Macêdo Costa e Silva; Regina Maria Bringel Martins; Francisco José Dutra Souto PAGE: 632-634 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500019
Leprosy reactions: the effect of gender and household contacts Giuseppe Mastrangelo; Joaquim da Silva Neto; Gilberto Valentim da Silva; Luca Scoizzato; Emanuela Fadda; Monique Dallapicola; Ana Luiza Folleto; Luca Cegolon PAGE: 92-96 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000100015
Histopathological examination of nerve samples from pure neural leprosy patients: obtaining maximum information to improve diagnostic efficiency Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes; Leila Chimelli; Márcia Rodrigues Jardim; Robson Teixeira Vital; José Augusto da Costa Nery; Suzana Corte-Real; Mariana Andréa Vilas Boas Hacker; Euzenir Nunes Sarno PAGE: 246-253 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000200015
Leprosy frequency in the world, 1999-2010 Maria Lúcia Fernandes Penna; Gerson Oliveira Penna PAGE: 3-12 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900002
Hansen's disease: a vanishing disease? Sinésio Talhari; Maria Aparecida de Faria Grossi; Maria Leide WDR de Oliveira; Bernardo Gontijo; Carolina Talhari ; Gerson Oliveira Penna PAGE: 13-16 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900003
Historic aspects of human susceptibility to leprosy and the risk of conjugal transmission M Patricia Joyce PAGE: 17-21 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900004
Leprosy, a neglected disease that causes a wide variety of clinical conditions in tropical countries Norma Tiraboschi Foss; Ana Carolina Fragoso Motta PAGE: 28-33 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900006
A clinical trial for uniform multidrug therapy for leprosy patients in Brazil: rationale and design Gerson Oliveira Penna ; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Rossilene Cruz; Heitor de Sá Gonçalves; Maria Lúcia Fernandes Penna; Samira Bührer-Sékula PAGE: 22-27 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900005
Erythema multiforme in leprosy Alice Machado Miranda ; Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes; José Augusto Costa Nery; Anna Maria Sales; Mario José dos Santos Pereira; Euzenir Nunes Sarno PAGE: 34-42 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900007
The role of human T cell lymphotrophic virus type 1, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus coinfections in leprosy Paulo Roberto Lima MachadoI, II, +; Warren D JohnsonIII; Marshall J GlesbyIV PAGE: 43-48 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900008
Characteristics of leprosy diagnosed through the surveillance of contacts: a comparison with index cases in Rio de Janeiro, 1987-2010 Mariana de Andrea Hacker; Nadia Cristina Duppre; José Augusto Costa Nery; Anna Maria Sales; Euzenir Nunes Sarno PAGE: 49-54 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900009
Unveiling healthy carriers and subclinical infections among household contacts of leprosy patients who play potential roles in the disease chain of transmission Sérgio Araújo; Janaína Lobato; Érica de Melo Reis; Dulcinéa Oliveira Bernardes Souza; Maria Aparecida Gonçalves; Adeilson Vieira Costa; Luiz Ricardo Goulart ; Isabela Maria Bernardes Goulart PAGE: 55-59 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900010
High rates of undiagnosed leprosy and subclinical infection amongst school children in the Amazon Region Josafá Gonçalves Barreto; Layana de Souza Guimarães; Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade; Patricia Sammarco Rosa; Claudio Guedes Salgado PAGE: 60-67 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900011
Brazilian clinical trial of uniform multidrug therapy for leprosy patients - the correlation between clinical disease types and adverse effects Heitor de Sá Gonçalves ; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Samira Bührer-Sékula; Rossilene Cruz; Paulo Cesar Almeida; Maria Elisabete Amaral de Moraes; Gerson Oliveira Penna PAGE: 74-78 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900013
Identification of serological biomarkers of infection, disease progression and treatment efficacy for leprosy John S Spencer; Malcolm S Duthie; Annemieke Geluk; Marivic F Balagon; Hee Jin Kim; William H Wheat; Delphi Chatterjee; Mary Jackson; Wei Li; Jade N Kurihara; Armi Maghanoy; Irene Mallari; Paul Saunderson; Patrick J Brennan; Hazel M Dockrell PAGE: 79-89 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900014
Serologic follow-up of IgG responses against recombinant mycobacterial proteins ML0405, ML2331 and LID-1 in a leprosy hyperendemic area in Venezuela Elsa Rada; Malcolm S Duthie; Steven G Reed; Nacarid Aranzazu; Jacinto Convit PAGE: 90-94 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900015
Seroreactivity to new Mycobacterium leprae protein antigens in different leprosy-endemic regions in Brazil Emerith Mayra Hungria; Regiane Morillas de Oliveira; Ana Lúcia Osório Maroclo de Souza; Maurício Barcelos Costa; Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza; Eliane Aparecida Silva; Fátima Regina Vilani Moreno; Maria Esther Salles Nogueira; Maria Renata Sales Nogueira Costa; Sônia Maria Usó Ruiz Silva; Samira Bührer-Sékula; Steven G Reed; Malcolm S Duthie; Mariane Martins de Araújo Stefani PAGE: 104-111 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900017
Mycobacterium leprae virulence-associated peptides are indicators of exposure to M. leprae in Brazil, Ethiopia and Nepal Kidist Bobosha; Sheila Tuyet Tang; Jolien J van der Ploeg-van Schip; Yonas Bekele; Marcia VSB Martins; Ole Lund; Kees LMC Franken; Saraswoti Khadge; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Heitor de Sá Gonçalves: Jemal Hussien; Pratibha Thapa: Chhatra B Kunwar; Deanna A Hagge; Abraham Aseffa; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani; Geraldo MB Pereira; Tom HM Ottenhoff; Annemieke Geluk PAGE: 112-123 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900018
Comparison of two rapid tests for anti-phenolic glycolipid-I serology in Brazil and Nepal Mariane Martins de Araújo Stefani; Adriano Badotti Grassi; Lucas Henrique Sampaio; Ana Lúcia Osório Maroclo de Sousa; Maurício Barcelos Costa; Pauline Scheelbeek; Kapil D Neupane; Deanna A Hagge; Murdo Macdonald; Sang-Nae Cho; Linda Oskam; Samira Bührer-Sékula PAGE: 124-131 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900019
Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae present on Ziehl-Neelsen-stained microscopic slides and in skin biopsy samples from leprosy patients in different geographic regions of Brazil Amanda Nogueira Brum Fontes; Harrison Magdinier Gomes; Marcelo Ivens de Araujo; Edson Cláudio Araripe de Albuquerque; Ida Maria Foschiani Dias Baptista; Maria Manuela da Fonseca Moura; Denise Silva Rezende; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani; Flávio Alves Lara; Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes; Heitor de Sá Gonçalves; Norma Lucena-Silva; Euzenir Nunes Sarno; Varalakshmi D Vissa; Patrick J Brennan; Philip Noel Suffys PAGE: 143-149 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900021
Association analysis of human leukocyte antigen class II (DRB1) alleles with leprosy in individuals from São Luís, state of Maranhão, Brazil Rita da Graça Carvalhal Frazão Corrêa ; Dorlene Maria Cardoso de Aquino; Arlene de Jesus Mendes Caldas; Humberto de Oliveira Serra; Fábio França Silva; Maxwellem de Jesus Costa Ferreira; Elton Jonh Freitas Santos; Emygdia Rosa Rêgo Barros Pires Leal Mesquita PAGE: 150-155 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900022
Deciphering the contribution of lipid droplets in leprosy: multifunctional organelles with roles in Mycobacterium leprae pathogenesis Katherine Antunes de Mattos; Euzenir Nunes Sarno; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani; Patricia T Bozza PAGE: 156-166 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900023
Mycobacterial laminin-binding histone-like protein mediates collagen-dependent cytoadherence André Alves Dias; Dominique Raze; Cristiana Soares de Lima; Maria Angela de Melo Marques; Hervé Drobecq; Anne-Sophie Debrie; Michelle Lopes Ribeiro-Guimarães; Franck Biet; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani PAGE: 174-182 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900025
Increased hepcidin expression in multibacillary leprosy Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza; Tatiana Salles de Souza Malaspina; Ana Paula Campanelli; Cássio Ghidella; Somei Ura; Dirceu Dalpino; Dejair Caitano do Nascimento; Ana Carla Pereira Latini PAGE: 183-189 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900026
Mycobacterium leprae in six-banded (Euphractus sexcinctus) and nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Northeast Brazil Cristiane Cunha Frota; Luana Nepomuceno Costa Lima; Adalgiza da Silva Rocha; Philip Noel Suffys; Benedito Neilson Rolim; Laura Cunha Rodrigues; Maurício Lima Barreto; Carl Kendall; Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr PAGE: 209-213 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900029
Leprosy exposure, infection and disease: a 25-year surveillance study of leprosy patient contacts Euzenir Nunes Sarno; Nadia Cristina Duppre; Anna Maria Sales; Mariana Andréa Hacker; José Augusto Nery; Haroldo José de Matos PAGE: 1054-1059 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000800015
Survey to identify Mycobacterium leprae-infected household contacts of patients from prevalent regions of leprosy in Colombia N Cardona-Castro; JC Beltrán-Alzate; R Manrique-Hernández PAGE: 332-336 | DOI: S0074-02762008000400003
Colonization by Helicobacter pylori of leprosy patients in Spain: immunomodulation to low molecular weight antigens of H. pylori Neluka Fernando; Pedro Torres; Dino Vaira; John Holton PAGE: 682-286 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500014
Mycobacterium leprae downregulates the expression of PHEX in Schwann cells and osteoblasts Sandra R Boiça Silva; Antônio J Tempone; Tatiana P Silva; Maria Renata SN Costa; Geraldo MB Pereira; Flávio A Lara; Maria Cristina V Pessolani; Danuza Esquenazi PAGE: 627-632 | DOI: S0074-02762010000500005
Armadillo meat intake was not associated with leprosy in a case control study, Curitiba (Brazil) Juliano Vilaverde Schmitt; Ivone Tod Dechandt; Gisele Dopke; Maria Luiza Ribas; Felipe Bochnia Cerci; Juliana Maria Zucco Viesi; Helena Zenedin Marchioro; Mariana Martins Bardou Zunino; Hélio Amante Miot PAGE: 857-862 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762010000700003
Early detection of leprosy by examination of household contacts, determination of serum anti-PGL-1 antibodies and consanguinity Renata Bazan-Furini; Ana Carolina F Motta; João Carlos L Simão; Daniela Chaves Tarquínio; Wilson Marques Jr; Marcello Henrique N Barbosa; Norma Tiraboschi Foss PAGE: 536-540 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762011000500003
Genetics of leprosy reactions: an overview Vinicius Fava; Marianna Orlova; Aurélie Cobat; Alexandre Alcaïs; Marcelo Mira; Erwin Schurr PAGE: 132-142 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900020
Cutaneous lesions sensory impairment recovery and nerve regeneration in leprosy patients Ximena Illarramendi; Emanuel Rangel; Alice Machado Miranda; Ana Claudia Ribeiro de Castro; Giselle de Oliveira Magalhães; Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes PAGE: 68-73 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900012
New sonographic measures of peripheral nerves: a tool for the diagnosis of peripheral nerve involvement in leprosy Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade, Marcello Henrique Nogueira-Barbosa, Helena Barbosa Lugão, Renata Bazan Furini, Wilson Marques Júnior, Norma Tiraboschi Foss PAGE: 257-262 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108032013001
Detection of Mycobacterium leprae in saliva and the evaluation of oral sensitivity in patients with leprosy Fernanda Borowsky da Rosa, Victor Costa de Souza, Tatiana Amaral Pires de Almeida, Valdinete Alves do Nascimento, Felicien Gonçalves Vásquez, Maria da Graça Souza Cunha, Felipe Gomes Naveca PAGE: 572-577 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276108052013006
Identification of clinical, epidemiological and laboratory risk factors for leprosy reactions during and after multidrug therapy Douglas Eulálio Antunes, Sergio Araujo, Gabriela Porto Ferreira, Ana Carolina Sousa Rodrigues da Cunha, Adeilson Vieira da Costa, Maria Aparecida Gonçalves, Isabela Maria Bernardes Goulart PAGE: 901-908 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130222
Examining ERBB2 as a candidate gene for susceptibility to leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in Brazil Sérgio Ricardo Fernandes Araújo, Sarra Elisabeth Jamieson, Kathryn Margaret Dupnik, Glória Regina Monteiro, Maurício Lisboa Nobre, Márcia Sousa Dias, Pedro Bezerra Trindade Neto, Maria do Carmo Palmeira Queiroz, Carlos Eduardo Maia Gomes, Jenefer Mary Blackwell, Selma Maria Bezerra Jeronimo PAGE: 182-188 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130344
Spatial Analysis of the Distribution of Leprosy in the State of Ceará, Northeast Brazil Ana Cláudia Dorta Montenegro, Guilherme Loureiro Werneck, Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr-Pontes, Maurício Lima Barreto, Hermann Feldmeier PAGE: 683-686
Serial measurement of the circulating levels of tumour necrosis factor and its soluble receptors 1 and 2 for monitoring leprosy patients during multidrug treatment Rosane Dias Costa, Vanessa Amaral Mendonça, Frederico Marianetti Soriani, Sandra Lyon, Rachel Adriana Penido, Ana Maria Duarte Dias Costa, Marina Dias Costa, Fabio de Souza Terra, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Carlos Mauricio de Figueiredo Antunes, Antonio Lúcio Teixeira PAGE: 1051-1056 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130240
Activation and cytokine profile of monocyte derived dendritic cells in leprosy: in vitro stimulation by sonicated Mycobacterium leprae induces decreased level of IL-12p70 in lepromatous leprosy André Flores Braga, Daniela Ferraz Moretto, Patrícia Gigliotti, Mariela Peruchi, Fátima Regina Vilani-Moreno, Ana Paula Campanelli, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Anand Iyer, Pranab Kumar Das, Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza PAGE: 655-661 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760140230
Widespread nasal carriage of Mycobacterium leprae among a healthy population in a hyperendemic region of northeastern Brazil Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, Cristiane Cunha Frota, Rosa Maria Salani Mota, Rosa Livia Freitas Almeida, Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes, Heitor de Sá Gonçalves, Laura Cunha Rodrigues, Carl Kendall, Ligia Kerr PAGE: 898-905 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150178
Association of the solute carrier family 11 member 1 gene polymorphisms with susceptibility to leprosy in a Brazilian sample Maria José Franco Brochado, Maria Fernanda Chociay Gatti, Marco Antônio Zago, Ana Maria Roselino PAGE: 101-105 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760150326
Leprosy in children and adolescents under 15 years old in an urban centre in Brazil Selton Diniz Santos, Gerson Oliveira Penna, Maria da Conceição Nascimento Costa, Marcio Santos Natividade, Maria Glória Teixeira PAGE: 359-364 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160002
The involvement of endothelial mediators in leprosy Maria Renata Sales Nogueira, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Maria Esther Salles Nogueira PAGE: 635-641 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160122
Polymorphisms in genes TLR1, 2 and 4 are associated with differential cytokine and chemokine serum production in patients with leprosy Nadja de Lima Santana, Jamile Leão Rêgo, Joyce Moura Oliveira, Lucas Frederico de Almeida, Marcos Braz, Lídia Maria Medeiros Machado, Paulo Roberto Lima Machado, Léa Cristina Castellucci PAGE: 260-268 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160366
A tale of two neglected tropical infections: using GIS to assess the spatial and temporal overlap of schistosomiasis and leprosy in a region of Minas Gerais, Brazil David Alexander Phillips, José Antonio Ferreira, Deidra Ansah, Herica SA Teixeira, Uriel Kitron, Thelma de Filippis, Marcelo H de Alcântara, Jessica K Fairley PAGE: 275-280 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160395
Towards leprosy elimination by 2020: forecasts of epidemiological indicators of leprosy in Corrientes, a province of northeastern Argentina that is a pioneer in leprosy elimination Elisa Petri de Odriozola, Ana María Quintana, Victor González, Roque Antonio Pasetto, María Eugenia Utgés, Octavio Augusto Bruzzone, María Rosa Arnaiz PAGE: 419-427 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160490
Evidence of hidden leprosy in a supposedly low endemic area of Brazil Fred Bernardes Filho, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Marcel Nani Leite, Thania Loyola Cordeiro Abi-Rached, Sebastian Vernal, Moises Batista da Silva, Josafá Gonçalves Barreto, John Stewart Spencer, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170173
ELISA-based assay of immunoglobulin G antibodies against mammalian cell entry 1A (Mce1A) protein: a novel diagnostic approach for leprosy Filipe R Lima, Iukary Takenami, Maurílio AL Cavalcanti, Lee W Riley, Sérgio Arruda DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160549
Natural environmental water sources in endemic regions of northeastern Brazil are potential reservoirs of viable Mycobacterium leprae Maria Luisa Bezerra de Macedo Arraes, Maísa Viana de Holanda, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, José Antônio Beltrão Sabadia, Cynthia Romariz Duarte, Rosa Livia Freitas Almeida, Carl Kendall, Ligia Regina Sansigolo Kerr, Cristiane Cunha Frota DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170117
Specific antigen serologic tests in leprosy: implications for epidemiological surveillance of leprosy cases and household contacts Ana Paula Mendes Carvalho, Angélica da Conceição Oliveira Coelho, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Francisco Carlos Félix Lana PAGE: 609-616 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760160505
Utility of immunoglobulin isotypes against LID-1 and NDO-LID for, particularly IgG1, confirming the diagnosis of multibacillary leprosy Pedro Henrique Ferreira Marçal, Lúcia Alves de Oliveira Fraga, Ana Márcia Menezes de Mattos, Laura Menegati, Angélica da Conceição Oliveira Coelho, Roberta Olmo Pinheiro, Euzenir Nunes Sarno, Malcolm S Duthie, Henrique Couto Teixeira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760170467
Effect of Mycobacterium leprae on neurotrophins expression in human Schwann cells and mouse sciatic nerves Maria Renata Sales Nogueira, Nádia Ghinelli Amôr, Letícia Baccaro Michellin, Milton Cury Filho, Patrícia Sammarco Rosa, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Luciana Silva Rodrigues, Robertha Mariana Rodrigues Lemes, Flavio Alves Lara, Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760200075
Polymorphisms in the TGFB1 and IL2RA genes are associated with clinical forms of leprosy in Brazilian population Rodrigo Mendes de Camargo, Weber Laurentino da Silva, Priscila Medeiros,Andrea de Faria Fernandes Belone, Ana Carla Pereira Latini DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760180274
Fibrosis: a distinguishing feature in the pathology of neural leprosy Sérgio Luiz Gomes Antunes, Márcia Rodrigues Jardim, Robson Teixeira Vital, Bernardo Miguel de Oliveira Pascarelli, José Augusto da Costa Nery, Thaís Porto Amadeu, Anna Maria Sales, Eduardo Alves Freire da Costa, Euzenir Nunes Sarno DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190056
Expression of NLRP3 inflammasome in leprosy indicates immune evasion of Mycobacterium leprae Ana Luisa Gomes Mendes, Heloísa Di Matteo Joaquim, Mara Inês Stefanini Zamae, Ramon Meira Assis, Jéssica Renata de Moura Peixoto, Margarida Maria Gomes de Araújo, Antônio Carlos Martins Guedes, Edward José Oliveira, Vanessa Peruhype Magalhães, Marcelo Antônio Pascoal-Xavier DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760190324
Accuracy of rapid point-of-care serological tests for leprosy diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis Carmen Phang Romero, Rodolfo Castro, Pedro Emmanuel A do Brasil, Daniella R Pereira, Roberta Olmo Pinheiro, Cristiana M Toscano, Maria Regina Fernandes de Oliveira DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220317
Association of CD209 (DC-SIGN) rs735240 SNV with paucibacillary leprosy in the Brazilian population and its functional effects Giovanna Valle Germano, André Flores Braga, Rodrigo Mendes de Camargo, Priscila Betoni Ballalai, Ohanna Cavalcanti Bezerra, Fernanda Saloum de Neves Manta, Andréa de Faria Fernandes Belone, Cleverson Teixeira Soares, Pranab Kumar Das, Milton Ozório Moraes, Ana Carla Pereira Latini, Vânia Niéto Brito de Souza DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220014
Design of a specific peptide against phenolic glycolipid-1 from Mycobacterium leprae and its implications in leprosy bacilli entry Nelson Enrique Arenas, Gilles Pieffet, Cristian Rocha-Roa, Martha Inírida Guerrero DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220025
Evaluation of the influence of genetic variants in Cereblon gene on the response to the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum with thalidomide Perpétua do Socorro Silva Costa, Miriãn Ferrão Maciel-Fiuza, Thayne Woycinck Kowalski, Lucas Rosa Fraga, Mariléa Furtado Feira, Luís Marcelo Aranha Camargo, Daniele Iop de Oliveira Caldoncelli, Maria Irismar da Silva Silveira, Lavínia Schuler-Faccini, Fernanda Sales Luiz Vianna DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220039
Heterogeneous persistence of Mycobacterium leprae in oral and nasal mucosa of multibacillary patients during multidrug therapy Arthur da Silva Neumann, Amanda Nogueira Brum Fontes, Márcia Quinhones Pires Lopes, Philip Noel Suffys, Milton Ozório Moraes, Flávio Alves Lara DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220058
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Iron and vitamin D intake on a diet are able to modify the in vitro immune response to Mycobacterium leprae Bruna Letícia Martins, Jonatas Perico, Daniele Ferreira de Faria Bertoluci, Adriana Sierra Assencio Almeida Barbosa, Patricia Sammarco Rosa, Maria Renata Sales Nogueira, Vânia Nieto Brito de Souza, Ana Carla Pereira Latini DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760230178