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Saavedra D, Nobre M, Guimaraes R, Fogaca M, Goulart I, Barreto J, et al.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis . 2025 Feb; PMID: 39953368
Purpose: Leprosy represents a public health concern; its diagnosis remains clinical. Recently, the Brazilian public health system/SUS incorporated the leprosy-specific IgM anti-PGL-I rapid test Fast ML Flow Hanseníase (MLFH/Bioclin, Brazil;...
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Pereira de Oliveira L, Marcal P, Campos K, Dos Santos D, Lima M, Martins-Filho O, et al.
Front Immunol . 2025 Jan; 15:1476450. PMID: 39744632
Introduction: Leprosy, a chronic infectious disease, is closely linked to the host immune response. According to the WHO, leprosy patients (L) and household contacts (HHC) are classified into subgroups: paucibacillary...
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Grijsen M, Nguyen T, Pinheiro R, Singh P, Lambert S, Walker S, et al.
Nat Rev Dis Primers . 2024 Nov; 10(1):90. PMID: 39609422
Leprosy, a neglected tropical disease, causes significant morbidity in marginalized communities. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, annual new case detection plateaued for over a decade at ~200,000 new cases. The clinical...
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Gomes T, da Silva T, Machado E, Vasconcelos S, Mietto B, de Faria Bertoluci D, et al.
Pathogens . 2024 Nov; 13(11). PMID: 39599539
Throughout () evolutionary trajectory, nearly half of its genome was converted into pseudogenes. Despite this drastic reduction in genetic content, the genome sequence identity among isolates worldwide is remarkably high...
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Bertao-Santos A, Dias L, Ribeiro-Alves M, Pinheiro R, Moraes M, Manta F, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis . 2024 Oct; 18(10):e0012032. PMID: 39374296
The study aimed to optimize qPCR reactions using oligonucleotides from the first Brazilian molecular diagnostic kit for leprosy on a portable platform (Q3-Plus). In addition, we sought to develop a...
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Xavier I, Andrade P, Vitor R, Barros T, Portela L, de Holanda M, et al.
Front Med (Lausanne) . 2024 Aug; 11:1411977. PMID: 39165379
Background: A better understanding of the consequences of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on lifestyle of patients with Chagas disease (ChD) is of paramount importance to facilitate the implementation...
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Dos Santos P, Diaz Acosta C, Leal Silveira Andrezo Rosa T, Ishiba M, Dias A, Pereira A, et al.
Front Pharmacol . 2024 Jul; 15:1399363. PMID: 39005937
Background: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by , which can lead to a disabling neurodegenerative condition. preferentially infects skin macrophages and Schwann cells-glial cells of the peripheral nervous...
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Spitz C, Pitta I, Andrade L, de Carvalho L, de Carvalho D, Schmidt F, et al.
Front Med (Lausanne) . 2024 Jun; 11:1400423. PMID: 38835799
Hansen's disease, or leprosy, is a disease characterized by dermatological and neurological disorders. A neural form also exists, in which peripheral neuropathy occurs in the absence of skin lesions. However,...
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Correa R, Leal-Calvo T, Mafort T, Santos A, Leung J, Pinheiro R, et al.
Front Immunol . 2024 Jan; 14:1256558. PMID: 38288122
Introduction: Pleural tuberculosis (PlTB), the most common site of extrapulmonary TB, is characterized by a paucibacillary nature and a compartmentalized inflammatory response in the pleural cavity, both of which make...
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Dutra P, Rodrigues L, Pinheiro R, Manfro W, Cestari I, Da-Silva S
Front Immunol . 2024 Jan; 15:1362719. PMID: 38282915
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