De Novo Histoid Leprosy: A Case Report from a Post-Elimination Area

Histoid leprosy is an uncommon variant of lepromatous leprosy that usually follows treatment failure. Occasionally it occurs de novo without any history of previous inadequate or irregular treatment. We, hereby, report a case of de novo histoid leprosy in a 25-year-old man from the post-elimination...

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Autores principales: Bhat, Yasmeen J, Hassan, Iffat, Yaseen, Atiya, Wani, Rohi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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E-IJD Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25814742
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.152590
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author Bhat, Yasmeen J
Hassan, Iffat
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description Histoid leprosy is an uncommon variant of lepromatous leprosy that usually follows treatment failure. Occasionally it occurs de novo without any history of previous inadequate or irregular treatment. We, hereby, report a case of de novo histoid leprosy in a 25-year-old man from the post-elimination area of Kashmir, where the prevalence rate of the disease was reported to be 0.17/10000 in March, 2013 (NLEP).
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spelling pubmed-43729462015-03-26 De Novo Histoid Leprosy: A Case Report from a Post-Elimination Area Bhat, Yasmeen J Hassan, Iffat Yaseen, Atiya Wani, Rohi Indian J Dermatol E-IJD Case Report Histoid leprosy is an uncommon variant of lepromatous leprosy that usually follows treatment failure. Occasionally it occurs de novo without any history of previous inadequate or irregular treatment. We, hereby, report a case of de novo histoid leprosy in a 25-year-old man from the post-elimination area of Kashmir, where the prevalence rate of the disease was reported to be 0.17/10000 in March, 2013 (NLEP). Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4372946/ /pubmed/25814742 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.152590 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bhat, Yasmeen J
Hassan, Iffat
Yaseen, Atiya
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De Novo Histoid Leprosy: A Case Report from a Post-Elimination Area
title De Novo Histoid Leprosy: A Case Report from a Post-Elimination Area
title_full De Novo Histoid Leprosy: A Case Report from a Post-Elimination Area
title_fullStr De Novo Histoid Leprosy: A Case Report from a Post-Elimination Area
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title_short De Novo Histoid Leprosy: A Case Report from a Post-Elimination Area
title_sort de novo histoid leprosy: a case report from a post-elimination area
topic E-IJD Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25814742
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.152590
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