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Leprosy is one of the oldest maladies and is well recognized in the oldest civilization of China, Egypt and India as a contagious, mutilating and incurable disease. The humans feared it because it resulted in disfigurement and physical disabilities, which are irreversible. Leprosy is also associated with a lot of stigma and in ancient times the community shunned people affected with leprosy into separate leper colonies Leprosy is believed to have existed in Egypt as long ago as 4000 BC and in India and Japan earlier than 1000 BC. It is also called as the infectious disease of the East. It later spread to Europe and British Isles and by 13th centaury it reached epidemic proportions.  |
Latest Publication and Research on Leprosy - Updated on 12/06/2011
From DOTS to the Stop TB Strategy: DOTS coverage and trend of tuberculosis notification in Ebonyi, southeastern Nigeria, 1998-2009. - Published by PubMed
Elimination of Leprosy as a public health problem by 2000 AD: an epidemiological perspective. - Published by PubMed
Peptides of Lsr2 of Mycobacterium leprae show hierarchical responses in lymphoproliferative assays with selective recognition by anergic lepromatous leprosy patients. - Published by PubMed
Mycobacterium ulcerans Infection (Buruli Ulcer) on the Face: A Comparative Analysis of 13 Clinically Suspected Cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo. - Published by PubMed
Increasing access to the MDR-TB surveillance programme through a collaborative model in western Kenya. - Published by PubMed
From DOTS to the Stop TB Strategy: DOTS coverage and trend of tuberculosis notification in Ebonyi, southeastern Nigeria, 1998-2009. - Published by PubMed
Elimination of Leprosy as a public health problem by 2000 AD: an epidemiological perspective. - Published by PubMed
Peptides of Lsr2 of Mycobacterium leprae show hierarchical responses in lymphoproliferative assays with selective recognition by anergic lepromatous leprosy patients. - Published by PubMed
Mycobacterium ulcerans Infection (Buruli Ulcer) on the Face: A Comparative Analysis of 13 Clinically Suspected Cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo. - Published by PubMed
Increasing access to the MDR-TB surveillance programme through a collaborative model in western Kenya. - Published by PubMed
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