Cloning, expression and characterisation of an HtrA-like serine protease produced in vivo by Mycobacterium leprae Michelle Lopes Ribeiro-Guimarães; Eliana Blini Marengo; Antonio Jorge Tempone; Julio Jablonski Amaral; Clécio F Klitzke; Erika K Xavier da Silveira; Fernanda Calheta Vieira Portaro; Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani PAGE: 1132-1138 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762009000800010

Morphological and functional characterizations of Schwann cells stimulated with Mycobacterium leprae Tatiana Pereira da Silva; Ana Caroline Costa da Silva; Maria da Graça Araújo Baruque; Rosane Barbosa de Oliveira; Marcelo Pelajo Machado; Euzenir Nunes Sarno PAGE: 363-369 | DOI: S0074-02762008000400009

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

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

Differential expression of the costimulatory molecules CD86, CD28, CD152 and PD-1 correlates with the host-parasite outcome in leprosy Maria de Lourdes Palermo; Maria Ângela Bianconcini Trindade; Alberto José da Silva Duarte; Camila Rodrigues Cacere; Gil Benard PAGE: 167-173 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000900024

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

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

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

Detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Blood and Nasal Secretion of Brazilian Household Contacts Elza Carmen de Almeida, Alejandra Nóbrega Martinez, Viviane Câmara Maniero, Ana Maria Sales, Nádia C Duppre, Euzenir Nunes Sarno, Adalberto Rezende Santos, Milton Ozório Moraes PAGE: 509-512

Infection by Mycobacterium leprae of household contacts of lepromatous leprosy patients from a post-elimination leprosy region of Colombia Nora M Cardona-Castro, Sandra Restrepo-Jaramillo, Myriam Gil de la Ossa, Patrick J Brennan PAGE: 703-707

Detection of Mycobacterium leprae DNA by Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Blood of Individuals, Eight Years after Completion of Anti-leprosy Therapy Adalberto Rezende Santos, Vivian Balassiano, Maria Leide W Oliveira, Marcia Aparecida da Silva Pereira, Patricia Barros Santos, Wim Maurits Degrave, Philip Noel Suffys PAGE: 1129-1133

Mycobacterium bovis BCG but not Mycobacterium leprae Induces TNF-a Secretion in Human Monocytic THP-1 Cells Martha M Oliveira, Rosane Charlab*, Maria Cristina V Pessolani PAGE: 973-978

Evaluation of Three Mycobacterium leprae Monoclonal Antibodies in Mucus and Lymph Samples from Ziehl-Neelsen Stain Negative Leprosy Patients and their Household Contacts in an Indian Community Nora Cardona-Castro, Gustavo Ortega-Rodríguez, Piedad Agudelo-Flórez PAGE: 487-490

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

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

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

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

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