The research activities of Dr. Soares are in the field of pathological anatomy and leprosy. Key words: Leprosy, pathophysiology, bacilloscopy examination, Mycobacterium leprae, histopathology ...

Leprosy remains one of the biggest public health problems in many countries. It is a complex disease in several aspects, including clinical, histopathological, and molecular. This book is written ...

To address a postulated oligogenic control of leprosy pathogenesis, we investigated in the present study linkage of leprosy susceptibility, leprosy clinical subtypes, ...

Insights into the pathogenesis of leprosy. Han and Silva also brought human evolution, host genetic diversity, and host immunity into the complex picture of leprosy.

Rising cases of leprosy in the Southeast U.S. point to the possibility of the disease becoming endemic to the region, and a high concentration of those cases were reported in central Florida ...

Florida becomes hotspot for leprosy, CDC says 03:38. Leprosy — also known as Hansen's disease — is becoming endemic in the southeastern United States, rising scientific evidence suggests.

But research of leprosy-infected chimps has so far shaped up differently. Two rare genotypes — 2F and 4N/O — have turned up in other chimps found with traces of M. leprae.

Cases of leprosy have risen in Florida and the southeastern U.S. over the last decade, according to a new report from the CDC.

Leprosy could be endemic in the US state of Florida, a new report has found. Officially called Hansen's disease, leprosy is a type of bacterial infection that targets the nervous system and causes ...