TY - JOUR
KW - Adams LB
KW - Colombia
KW - Colombia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 May [date cited]. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2805.212015
KW - Escobar-Builes MV
KW - Hansen disease
KW - Lahiri R. Mycobacterium lepromatosis as cause of leprosy
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Mycobacterium lepromatosis
KW - Serrano-Coll H
KW - Suggested citation for this article: Cardona-Castro N
KW - Bacteria
KW - leprosy
KW - Tuberculosis and other mycobacteria
AU - Cardona-Castro N
AU - Escobar-Builes M
AU - Serrano-Coll H
AU - Adams L
AU - Lahiri R
AB - <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>

BT - Emerging infectious diseases
C1 - <p>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35450566</p>

DA - 05/2022
DO - 10.3201/eid2805.212015
IS - 5
J2 - Emerg Infect Dis
LA - eng
N2 - <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>

PY - 2022
SP - 1067
EP - 1068
T2 - Emerging infectious diseases
TI - Mycobacterium lepromatosis as Cause of Leprosy, Colombia.
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/5/pdfs/21-2015-combined.pdf
VL - 28
SN - 1080-6059
ER -