Browsing by Subject "leprosy"

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    • Autoanticorpos em pacientes com hanseníase, com e sem comprometimento articular, no Estado do Amazonas 

      Ribeiro, Sandra Lúcia Euzébio [UNIFESP]; Pereira, H.l.a [UNIFESP]; Silva, Neusa Pereira da [UNIFESP]; Sato, Emilia Inoue [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2009-10-01)
      OBJECTIVE: Determine the frequency of rheumatoid factor (IgM-RF) and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies (anti-CCP), antinuclear antibodies (ANA), antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), anticardiolipin ...

    • Avaliação por imagem do comprometimento osteoarticular e de nervos periféricos na hanseníase 

      Pereira, Helena Lúcia Alves [UNIFESP]; Ribeiro, Sandra Lúcia Euzébio [UNIFESP]; Ciconelli, Rozana Mesquita [UNIFESP]; Fernandes, Artur da Rocha Correa [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2006-06-01)
      In leprosy, bone lesions due direct invasion of bacilli are low in incidence and these lesions exhibit radiologic findings of acute and chronic osteomyelitis similar to those of other granulomatous infectious agents. The ...

    • Erythema leprosum - after treatment of Lepromatous Leprosy 

      Eickelmann, Mareike; Steinhoff, Martin; Metze, Dieter; Tomimori-Yamashita, Jane [UNIFESP]; Sunderkoetter, Cord (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-06-01)
      P>Leprosy is usually well-controlled by multidrug therapy (MDT). However, in case of noncompliance or leprosy reactions, it may present a therapeutically challenge. A 33-year-old Brazilian woman with lepromatous leprosy ...

    • Hanseníase em populações indígenas da região do Alto Rio Juruá, Acre 

      Teles, Stefanie Ferreira [UNIFESP] (Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 2014-09-23)
      Leprosy (Hansen?s disease) is a infectious disease, caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It is endemic in many Brazilian regions as the North, Northeast and Center West. Although numbers trend downward, the state of Acre had a ...

    • Hanseníase virchowiana associada ao uso de inibidor do fator de necrose tumoral α: relato de caso 

      Freitas, Daniele Souza [UNIFESP]; Machado, Natália Pereira [UNIFESP]; Andrigueti, Fernando Villela [UNIFESP]; Reis Neto, Edgard Torres dos [UNIFESP]; Pinheiro, Marcelo de Medeiros [UNIFESP] (Sociedade Brasileira de Reumatologia, 2010-06-01)
      TNF blockers have been used in the treatment of several types of chronic inflammatory arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis. However, many doubts regarding the safety and high risk of infectious diseases in these ...

    • Immune cellular parameters of leprosy and human immunodeficiency virus-1 co-infected subjects 

      Carvalho, Karina I. [UNIFESP]; Maeda, Solange [UNIFESP]; Marti, Luciana; Yamashita, Jane [UNIFESP]; Haslett, Patrick A. J.; Kallas, Esper Georges [UNIFESP] (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008-06-01)
      Leprosy and human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) are examples of human infections where interactions between the pathogen and the host cellular immunity determine the clinical manifestations of disease. Hence, a significant ...

    • Lower numbers of natural killer T cells in HIV-1 and Mycobacterium leprae co-infected patients 

      Carvalho, Karina I.; Bruno, Fernanda R.; Snyder-Cappione, Jennifer E.; Maeda, Solange M. [UNIFESP]; Tomimori, Jane [UNIFESP]; Xavier, Marilia B.; Haslett, Patrick A.; Nixon, Douglas F.; Kallas, Esper G. [UNIFESP] (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-05-01)
      Natural killer T (NKT) cells are a heterogeneous population of lymphocytes that recognize antigens presented by CD1d and have attracted attention because of their potential role linking innate and adaptive immune responses. ...

    • Mycobacterium leprae is identified in the oral mucosa from paucibacillary and multibacillary leprosy patients 

      Abreu, Marilda Aparecida Milanez Morgado de [UNIFESP]; Roselino, A. M.; Enokihara, M. [UNIFESP]; Nonogaki, S.; Prestes-Carneiro, L. E.; Weckx, Luc Louis Maurice [UNIFESP]; Alchorne, Maurício Mota de Avelar [UNIFESP] (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-01-01)
      In leprosy, the nasal mucosa is considered as the principal route of transmission for the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. the objective of this study was to identify M.leprae in the oral mucosa of 50 untreated leprosy ...

    • Primary neural leprosy: systematic review 

      Garbino, Jose Antonio; Marques Junior, Wilson; Barreto, Jaison Antonio; Heise, Carlos Otto; Rodrigues, Marcia Maria Jardim; Antunes, Sergio L.; Soares, Cleverson Teixeira; Floriano, Marcos César [UNIFESP]; Nery, Jose Augusto; Trindade, Maria Angela Bianconcini; Carvalho, Noemia Barbosa; Andrada, Nathalia Carvalho de; Barreira, Amilton Antunes; Virmond, Marcos da Cunha Lopes (Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO, 2013-06-01)
      The authors proposed a systematic review on the current concepts of primary neural leprosy by consulting the following online databases: MEDLINE, Lilacs/SciELO, and Embase. Selected studies were classified based on the ...

    • Sorologia Anti PGL-1 e risco de ocorrência de hanseníase em área de alta endemicidade do Estado de São Paulo: quatro anos de seguimento 

      Brasil, Mitie Tada L.r.f.; Oliveira, Luiz Roberto De; Rímoli, Nely S.; Cavallari F., Sérgio; Gonçalves, Otília S.; Lessa, Zenaide L.; Rotta, Osmar [UNIFESP] (Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva, 2003-09-01)
      Serum tests for the diagnosis of Leprosy using Phenolic GlicoLipid-1 (PGL-1), considered a specific antigen for M. leprae, have opened some possibilities for studying the epidemiological behavior of this disease. Some ...