Leprosy, a disease caused by the intracellular parasite Mycobacterium leprae or
Mycobacterium lepromatosis, has affected humans for more than 4,000 years and is a …

After sustained exposure to Mycobacterium leprae, only a subset of exposed individuals
develops clinical leprosy. Moreover, leprosy patients show a wide spectrum of clinical …

Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly
characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on …

The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346–1353) on European
populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by …

The past few years have been very productive concerning the identification of genes
associated with leprosy. Candidate gene strategies using both case–control and family …

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by
Mycobacterium leprae in which susceptibility to the mycobacteria and its clinical …

Leprosy reactions are acute inflammatory episodes that complicate the course of a
Mycobacterium leprae infection and are the major cause of leprosy-associated pathology …

The discovery of vitamin D receptor (VDR) expression in immune cells has opened up a new
area of research into immunoregulation by vitamin D, a niche that is distinct from its classical …

Leprosy is a chronic infectious and neurological disease that is caused by infection of
Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae). A recent genome-wide association study indicated a …

The objective of this study was to ascertain risk factors for complications (reactions or
neuritis) in leprosy patients at the time of diagnosis in three leprosy-endemic countries …