@article{22215,
  keywords = {Aged, 80 and over, Bacterial Proteins, DNA, Bacterial, Female, Histocytochemistry, Humans, Leprosy, lepromatous, Mexico, Microscopy, Mycobacterium, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Skin},
  author = {Vera-Cabrera L and Escalante-Fuentes W and Gomez-Flores M and Ocampo-Candiani J and Busso P and Singh P and Cole S},
  title = {Case of diffuse lepromatous leprosy associated with "Mycobacterium lepromatosis".},
  abstract = {<p>An 86-year-old female patient from northeast Mexico presented with diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL). Sequence analysis of four genes (rrs, rpoB, sigA, and hsp65) from the skin biopsy specimen identified "Mycobacterium lepromatosis." This is the first independent confirmation of a case of DLL due to M. lepromatosis.</p>},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Journal of clinical microbiology},
  volume = {49},
  pages = {4366-8},
  month = {2011 Dec},
  publisher = {American Society for Microbiology},
  address = {Washington},
  issn = {1098-660X},
  url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232982/pdf/zjm4366.pdf},
  doi = {10.1128/JCM.05634-11},
  language = {eng},
}