@article{96779,
  keywords = {Adams LB, Colombia, Colombia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 May [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2805.212015, Escobar-Builes MV, Hansen disease, Lahiri R. Mycobacterium lepromatosis as cause of leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium lepromatosis, Serrano-Coll H, Suggested citation for this article: Cardona-Castro N, Bacteria, leprosy, Tuberculosis and other mycobacteria},
  author = {Cardona-Castro N and Escobar-Builes M and Serrano-Coll H and Adams L and Lahiri R},
  title = {Mycobacterium lepromatosis as Cause of Leprosy, Colombia.},
  abstract = {<p>Leprosy is a granulomatous infection caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae or M. lepromatosis. We evaluated skin biopsy and slit skin smear samples from 92 leprosy patients in Colombia by quantitative PCR. Five (5.4%) patients tested positive for M. lepromatosis, providing evidence of the presence of this pathogen in Colombia.</p>
},
  year = {2022},
  journal = {Emerging infectious diseases},
  volume = {28},
  pages = {1067-1068},
  month = {05/2022},
  issn = {1080-6059},
  url = {https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/5/pdfs/21-2015-combined.pdf},
  doi = {10.3201/eid2805.212015},
  language = {eng},
}