Leprosy (Hansen's disease) is caused by the obligate intracellular organism Mycobacterium leprae. It is an infectious, chronic granulomatous disease transmitted through close contact. The latest current data shows that in 2010, eleven new cases of leprosy were reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System in Australia. We report the case of a patient with untreated chronic lepromatous leprosy diagnosed in Queensland, 2012. Delay in diagnosis may have been due to the rarity of this condition.
BT - The Australasian medical journal C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23671461?dopt=Abstract CN - BARKLA 2013 DA - 2013 DO - 10.4066/AMJ.2013.1604 IS - 4 J2 - Australas Med J LA - eng N2 -Leprosy (Hansen's disease) is caused by the obligate intracellular organism Mycobacterium leprae. It is an infectious, chronic granulomatous disease transmitted through close contact. The latest current data shows that in 2010, eleven new cases of leprosy were reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System in Australia. We report the case of a patient with untreated chronic lepromatous leprosy diagnosed in Queensland, 2012. Delay in diagnosis may have been due to the rarity of this condition.
PY - 2013 SP - 175 EP - 7 T2 - The Australasian medical journal TI - Lepromatous leprosy: A rare presentation in Australia. UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3650307/pdf/AMJ-06-175.pdf VL - 6 SN - 1836-1935 ER -