Drug resistance is still the major threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control, and drug-resistant
(DR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) strains have become the main challenge …

Background In leprosy patients, the most commonly reported non-viral co-infections are
Tuberculosis, Leishmaniasis, Chromoblastomycosis and Helminths. The presence of a …

Objetivo: apreender as representações sociais da biossegurança por profissionais de
Enfermagem na Atenção Primária e analisar como elas se articulam com a qualidade da …

Objetivo: apreender as representações sociais da biossegurança por profissionais de
Enfermagem na Atenção Primária e analisar como elas se articulam com a qualidade da …

Introduction. We have examined four burials from the St Mary Magdalen mediaeval
leprosarium cemetery in Winchester, Hampshire, UK. One (Sk. 8) was a male child, two (Sk …

Tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy, the 2 major mycobacterial infections of humans, are classic
granulomatous diseases that still affect millions of people. Both infections are now curable …

Background Leprosy is one of the oldest mycobacterial infections and tuberculosis is the
most common mycobacterial infection with a higher degree of infectivity than leprosy …

Historically, archaeological evidence, post-mortem findings and retrospective analysis of
leprosy institutions' data demonstrates a high observed incidence of concomitant infection …

Both leprosy and tuberculosis (TB) are known to have similar geographic endemicity. In the
setting of coinfection, interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) to detect latent TB can be …

Background Leprosy and tuberculosis are two of the oldest and most common mycobacterial
infections, caused by Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacteium lepramatosis for leprosy …