The difficulty in diagnosis and treatment of leprosy

J Travel Med. 2010 Jul-Aug;17(4):281-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00419.x.

Abstract

Leprosy is still an important and debilitating disease with a broad clinical spectrum. However, this disease occurs most often endemically, and as an imported disease it can also still be recognized in the nonendemic industrialized world.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Infective Agents / therapeutic use
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leprosy / diagnosis*
  • Leprosy / drug therapy*
  • Middle Aged
  • Mycobacterium leprae / isolation & purification*
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use
  • Prognosis
  • Rheumatic Diseases / diagnosis
  • Sarcoidosis / diagnosis
  • Skin Diseases, Infectious / diagnosis
  • Sweden
  • Thalidomide / therapeutic use
  • Travel*
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Thalidomide
  • Prednisone