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 - tratamento 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 -
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.
BT - Emerging infectious diseases C1 -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35450566
DA - 05/2022 DO - 10.3201/eid2805.212015 IS - 5 J2 - Emerg Infect Dis LA - eng N2 -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.
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 -