Leprosy: the epidemiology of a slow bacterium.

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  1982

• Venue

  Epidemiologic Reviews

• Publication date

  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.EPIREV.A036245PMID 6754406
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Infection with Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare and the protective effects of Bacille Calmette-Guérin.

  1982cited by this paper
• The association of pregnancy and leprosy. I. New cases, relapse of cured patients and deterioration in patients on treatment during pregnancy and lactation--results of a prospective study of 154 pregnancies in 147 Ethiopian women.

  1981cited by this paper
• Leprosy in the world today.

  1981cited by this paper
• Immunogenetics of susceptibility to leprosy, tuberculosis, and leishmaniasis. An epidemiological perspective.

  1981cited by this paper
• Borderline tuberculoid leprosy following BCG vaccination. A case report.

  1981cited by this paper
• Should indeterminate leprosy ever be diagnosed?

  1981cited by this paper
• The epidemiological situation in the Americas.

  1981cited by this paper
• Antigen-specific suppressor cells in subclinical leprosy infection.

  1981cited by this paper
• BCG vaccination of children against leprosy in Uganda: final results

  1981cited by this paper
• The effect of two distinct forms of cell-mediated response to mycobacteria on the protective efficacy of BCG.

  1981cited by this paper
• Leprosy--a zoonosis.

  1981cited by this paper
• Occurrence of non-cultivable acid-fast bacilli in the environment and their relationship to M. leprae.

  1981cited by this paper
• HLA-linked control of the course of M. leprae infections.

  1981cited by this paper
• Systemic tolerance and secretory immunity after oral immunization

  1980cited by this paper
• Effect of purification steps on the immunogenicity of Mycobacterium leprae.

  1980cited by this paper
• Antibodies against Mycobacterium leprae antigen 7 from birth to 18 months of age: an indicator of intra-uterine infection in leprosy.

  1980cited by this paper
• Epidemiological information on leprosy in the Singu area of Upper Burma.

  1980cited by this paper
• Fluorescent leprosy antibody absorption (FLA-ABS) test for detecting subclinical infection with Mycobacterium leprae.

  1980cited by this paper
• HLA-linked genes and leprosy: a family study in Karigiri, South India.

  1979cited by this paper
• Lymphocyte transformation test in healthy contacts of patients with leprosy. I. Influence of exposure to leprosy within a household.

  1979cited by this paper
• Importance of the neural predilection of Mycobacterium leprae in leprosy.

  1979cited by this paper
• Leprosy in the United States, 1967-76.

  1978cited by this paper
• Genetic factors in leprosy: a study of children in Uganda

  1978cited by this paper
• The association between age of onset and mortality in lepromatous leprosy.

  1978cited by this paper
• Extended studies on chemoprophylaxis against leprosy.

  1978cited by this paper
• On the mode of transmission of Mycobacterium leprae.

  1977cited by this paper
• Viability of Mycobacterium leprae outside the human body.

  1977cited by this paper
• HLA-linked genetic control of host response to Mycobacterium leprae.

  1976cited by this paper
• Protein and calorie malnutrition, cell-mediated immunity, and B.C.G. vaccination in children from rural West Bengal.

  1976cited by this paper
• Cell walls of Mycobacterium leprae.

  1976cited by this paper
• Leprosy in the United States, 1950-1969: an epidemiologic review.

  1976cited by this paper
• The role of arthropods in the transmission of leprosy.

  1976cited by this paper
• Untreated leprosy: probability for shifts in Ridley-Jopling classification. Development of "flares", or disappearance of clinically apparent disease.

  1976cited by this paper
• Tests with three antigens in leprosy-endemic and non-endemic areas.

  1975cited by this paper
• Leprosy in Louisiana, 1855-1970. An epidemiologic study of long-term trends.

  1975cited by this paper
• Transmission of leprosy within households.

  1975cited by this paper
• Preliminary taxonomic studies on the leprosy bacillus.

  1975cited by this paper
• Some Aspects of the History of Leprosy: The Leprosie of Yesterday

  1975cited by this paper
• The nasal dicharge in leprosy: clinical and bacteriological aspects.

  1974cited by this paper
• Self-healing leprosy: report on 2749 patients.

  1974cited by this paper
• Leprosy in Vietnam veterans.

  1974cited by this paper
• The nose in leprosy: steps to a better understanding.

  1974cited by this paper
• BCG vaccination of children against leprosy: nine-year findings of the controlled WHO trial in Burma.

  1974cited by this paper
• Site of early skin lesions in children with leprosy.

  1973cited by this paper
• Subclinical Infection in Leprosy

  1973cited by this paper
• Some epidemiological data on leprosy collected in a mass survey in Burma.

  1973cited by this paper
• Incidence of leprosy in Gudiyatham Taluk, South India.

  1972cited by this paper
• Hereditary Characteristic that Varies Among Isolates of Mycobacterium leprae

  1971cited by this paper
• An anthropological method for measuring exposure to leprosy in a leproxy-endemic population at Karimui, New Guinea.

  1970cited by this paper
• Occurrence of leprosy in U.S. veterans after service in endemic areas abroad.

  1969cited by this paper
• IDENTIFICATION OF THE TUBERCULOUS‐INFECTED BY SKIN TESTS *

  1968cited by this paper
• Lepromin and tuberculin reactivity in adults not exposed to leprosy.

  1967cited by this paper
• An epidemiologist's view of leprosy.

  1966cited by this paper
• Effects of infection with atypical mycobacteria on BCG vaccination and tuberculosis.

  1966cited by this paper
• Temperature Optimum of Mycobacterium leprae in Mice

  1965cited by this paper
• IMMUNOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION OF FOOT-PAD ISOLATES AS MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE BY LEPROMIN REACTIVITY IN LEPROSY PATIENTS

  1963cited by this paper
• THE EXPERIMENTAL DISEASE THAT FOLLOWS THE INJECTION OF HUMAN LEPROSY BACILLI INTO FOOT-PADS OF MICE

  1960cited by this paper
• Relative efficiency of pigment and horny layer thickness in protecting the skin of Europeans and Africans against solar ultraviolet radiation *

  1955cited by this paper
• Case of Leprosy Seen in a V.D. Clinic in Britain

  1953cited by this paper
• Risk of Persons in Familial Contact with Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

  1933cited by this paper

• Clinical, Therapeutic, and Stigma-Related Challenges in Leprosy and the Emerging Role of Apremilast in Managing Leprosy Reactions.

  2025cites this paper
• Prevalence, patterns and determinants of peripheral neuropathy among leprosy patients in Northeast Ethiopia: A retrospective study

  2025cites this paper
• Insights into leprosy epidemiology from an isolated population located in the Brazilian Amazon

  2025cites this paper
• Late relapses in leprosy patients in Brazil: 10-year post-trial of uniform multidrug therapy (U-MDT/CT-BR)

  2024cites this paper
• Histopathological spectrum of leprosy with clinicopathologic correlation

  2024cites this paper
• Implementation of different Control Strategies for leprosy individuals considering Quality of Life (QoL) with associated Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA)

  2024cites this paper
• Molecular epidemiological characteristics of Mycobacterium leprae in highly endemic areas of China during the COVID-19 epidemic

  2024cites this paper
• The geographical distribution and socioeconomic risk factors of COVID-19, tuberculosis and leprosy in Fortaleza, Brazil

  2023cites this paper
• A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy

  2023cites this paper
• Leprosy in the 21st Century - An Evaluation of Clinical Spectrum and Histopathological Correlation of Leprosy in Tertiary Care Hospital in Karnataka

  2023cites this paper
• Diagnosing and treating leprosy in a non-endemic setting in a national centre, London, United Kingdom 1995–2018

  2022cites this paper
• Multibacillary leprosy with an incubation period exceeding 50 years

  2022cites this paper
• Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis

  2022cites this paper
• Next-generation sequencing-assisted diagnosis of a case of leprosy misdiagnosed as erythema multiforme

  2022cites this paper
• Determining target populations for leprosy prophylactic interventions: a hotspot analysis in Indonesia

  2022cites this paper
• Hansen’s disease (leprosy) in Japan, 1947–2020: an epidemiologic study during the declining phase to elimination

  2022cites this paper
• Creating communities of care: Sex estimation and mobility histories of adolescents buried in the cemetery of St. Mary Magdalen leprosarium (Winchester, England)

  2022cites this paper
• Quantifying Population Burden and Effectiveness of Decentralized Surveillance Strategies for Skin-Presenting Neglected Tropical Diseases, Liberia

  2022cites this paper
• Leprosy chemoprophylaxis of household contacts: A survey of Canadian infectious disease and tropical medicine specialists.

  2021cites this paper
• The long-term impact of the Leprosy Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (LPEP) program on leprosy incidence: A modelling study

  2021cites this paper
• RT: Histo-morphological variants of leprosy A cross sectional study on correlation between histo-morphological types of leprosy with bacilloscopic index

  2021cites this paper
• Number of people requiring post-exposure prophylaxis to end leprosy: A modeling study

  2021cites this paper
• Mycobacterium leprae Infection in Ticks and Tick-Derived Cells

  2021cites this paper
• Clinico-pathological Study of Leprosy- A Descriptive Study

  2021cites this paper
• A 5-year evaluation of chemoprophylactic treatment in elementary school children with subclinical leprosy.

  2021cites this paper
• Advances in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Recent Progress and Future Applications

  2020cites this paper
• Documenting the decline of leprosy in Europe: The example of Northern Portugal

  2020cites this paper
• Study of histomorphological variants of leprosy in correlation with bacilloscopy index in tertiary care hospital

  2020cites this paper
• Molecular epidemiology of leprosy: An update.

  2020cites this paper
• Leprosy Post-Exposure Prophylaxis with Single-dose Rifampicin: Health economic aspects in India

  2020influential citation
• Report of two cases of lepromatous leprosy at an early age.

  2020cites this paper
• Molecular epidemiology and transmission dynamics of leprosy among multicase families and case- contact pairs.

  2020cites this paper
• Leprosy in Kiribati: the lived experience

  2020cites this paper
• Autochthonous leprosy in Spain: Has the transmission of Mycobacterium leprae stopped?

  2020cites this paper
• Anti-Leprosy Vaccine (Hansen’s Disease Vaccine)

  2020cites this paper
• Social, Cultural and Psychological Perspective of Leprosy (Hansen’s Diseases)

  2019cites this paper
• Global Burdens, Impacts and Global Efforts towards Hansen’s Disease

  2019cites this paper
• Effectiveness of special awareness campaigns in sustaining leprosy awareness through community participation in rural areas of Maharashtra

  2019cites this paper
• Uniform multidrug therapy for leprosy patients in Brazil (U-MDT/CT-BR): Results of an open label, randomized and controlled clinical trial, among multibacillary patients

  2018cites this paper
• Extensive Lepromatous Lymphadenitis Preceding Lesions on the Face and Earlobes: An Unusual Presentation of Leprosy in Singapore

  2018cites this paper
• Policy Lessons From Quantitative Modeling of Leprosy

  2018cites this paper
• Minimum requirements and optimal testing strategies of a diagnostic test for leprosy as a tool towards zero transmission: A modeling study

  2018cites this paper
• Leprosy - one of the many forgotten tropical diseases.

  2017cites this paper
• Evaluation and Monitoring of Mycobacterium leprae Transmission in Household Contacts of Patients with Hansen's Disease in Colombia

  2017cites this paper
• Multibacillary leprosy by population groups in Brazil: Lessons from an observational study

  2017cites this paper
• Uniform multidrug therapy for leprosy patients in Brazil (U-MDT/CT-BR): Results of an open label, randomized and controlled clinical trial, among multibacillary patients

  2017cites this paper
• Leprosy: current situation, clinical and laboratory aspects, treatment history and perspective of the uniform multidrug therapy for all patients*

  2017cites this paper
• La Lèpre à Mayotte : étude sur les nouveaux cas de 2006 à 2015

  2017cites this paper
• Forecasting the new case detection rate of leprosy in four states of Brazil: A comparison of modelling approaches

  2017cites this paper
• orecasting the new case detection rate of leprosy in four states of razil : A comparison of modelling approaches avid

  2017cites this paper
• A study of histological types of leprosy along with clinico-histopathological correlation in a Tertiary Centre from North Maharashtra region.

  2017cites this paper
• The decline of autochthonous leprosy in the Valencia Region of Spain: patterns and trends 1940-2015

  2017cites this paper
• Assessment of Disability amongst Leprosy Patients : A Cross-Sectional Study

  2017cites this paper
• Leprosy in children and adolescents under 15 years old in an urban centre in Brazil

  2016cites this paper
• Pauci- and Multibacillary Leprosy: Two Distinct, Genetically Neglected Diseases

  2016cites this paper
• Clinicopathological correlation of Hansen's disease: a retrospective study of skin biopsies

  2016cites this paper
• Comparison and Contrast of the Elimination Campaigns for Poliomyelitis and Leprosy: Which is More Feasible?

  2016cites this paper
• Epidemiologic trends of leprosy for the 21st century.

  2016cites this paper
• Procedure For Staining Of Haematqxylin & Eosin 1

  2016cites this paper
• A study of the prevalence of smear‐positive leprosy cases in a tertiary care center in the post‐elimination phase of leprosy

  2016cites this paper
• LEPROSY CONTROL IN PAKISTAN : FIFTY FIVE YEARS OF COMMITMENT AND DEDICATION

  2016cites this paper
• Epidemiology, Prognosis, and Prevention of Leprosy Worldwide

  2016cites this paper
• Human migration, railways and the geographic distribution of leprosy in Rio Grande do Norte State--Brazil.

  2015cites this paper
• The decline of leprosy in the Republic of Korea; patterns and trends 1977-2013.

  2015cites this paper
• Spatial heterogeneity in projected leprosy trends in India

  2015cites this paper
• Mathematical modelling of leprosy and its control.

  2015influential citation
• Global elimination of leprosy by 2020: are we

  2015cites this paper
• Leprosy: a review on elimination, reducing the disease burden, and future research.

  2015cites this paper
• Human Genetic Ancestral Composition Correlates with the Origin of Mycobacterium leprae Strains in a Leprosy Endemic Population

  2015cites this paper
• Quantitative analyses and modelling to support achievement of the 2020 goals for nine neglected tropical diseases

  2015cites this paper
• The use of chart review to elucidate the epidemiology of leprosy in the Mbingo leprosarium of Cameroon

  2014cites this paper
• Long-term Survival and Virulence of Mycobacterium leprae in Amoebal Cysts

  2014cites this paper
• Women and leprosy : a review Summary Gender inequalities in health have a significant impact on women ' s health

  2014cites this paper
• Multinational corporations and infectious disease: Embracing human rights management techniques

  2014cites this paper
• Patient profile and treatment satisfaction of Brazilian leprosy patients in a clinical trial of uniform six-month multidrug therapy (U-MDT/CT-BR).

  2014cites this paper
• Hazards of setting targets to eliminate disease: lessons from the leprosy elimination campaign

  2014cites this paper
• Intolerance to leprosy multi-drug therapy: more common in women?

  2013cites this paper
• Time trends in MB-PB ratio among untreated leprosy patients attending a referral hospital in UP, India during 2001 to 2010.

  2013cites this paper
• Estimating the extent of household contact misclassification with index cases of disease in longitudinal studies using a stochastic simulation model

  2013cites this paper
• Clinical observations in leprosy cases treated at Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

  2013cites this paper
• Patterns and trends of leprosy in Mexico: 1989-2009.

  2012cites this paper
• Avaliação do risco de adoecimento em contatos de pacientes de hanseníase, considerando fatores individuais, domiciliares e contextuais

  2012cites this paper
• Lepra: una revisión del estado del arte Leprosy: a state of the art review

  2012influential citation
• Leprosy exposure, infection and disease: a 25-year surveillance study of leprosy patient contacts.

  2012cites this paper
• Towards the molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium leprae: strategies, successes, and shortcomings.

  2011cites this paper
• [Survey of newly diagnosed Japanese leprosy patients].

  2011cites this paper
• Lepra: enfermedad milenaria y actual

  2011cites this paper
• Mapping and modeling of neglected tropical diseases in Brazil and Bolivia

  2011cites this paper
• The Long Term Effect of Current and New Interventions on the New Case Detection of Leprosy: A Modeling Study

  2011cites this paper
• Seropositivity to anti-phenolic glycolipid-I in leprosy cases, contacts and no known contacts of leprosy in an endemic and a non-endemic area in northeast Brazil.

  2010cites this paper
• On the Spread of Leprosy in a Heterogeneous Population

  2010influential citation
• Epidemiology of leprosy in Kermanshah province from 2003 to 2008

  2010cites this paper
• Health Problems and Nutritional Status of Selected Leprosy Victims of Burla Town , Orissa , India

  2010influential citation
• Nasal mucosa study of leprosy contacts with positive serology for the phenolic glycolipid 1 antigen

  2010cites this paper
• 'Environmental' sources of Mycobacterium leprae: issues and evidence.

  2010cites this paper
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex, Mycobacterium leprae, and Other Slow‐Growing Mycobacteria

  2010cites this paper
• LEPROSY THERAPY, PAST AND PRESENT: CAN WE HOPE TO ELIMINATE IT?

  2010cites this paper
• Different Mechanisms for Heterogeneity in Leprosy Susceptibility Can Explain Disease Clustering within Households

  2010cites this paper
• TTC Repeats Variation of Mycobacterium leprae Isolates for Analysis of Leprosy Transmission in Leprosy Endemic Area in East Java, INDONESIA

  2010cites this paper
• Chapter 5 – Nonsquamous Pathologic Diseases of the Hypopharynx, Larynx, and Trachea

  2009cites this paper