@article{19005,
  keywords = {Adult, Follow-Up Studies, HIV Infections, Humans, Incidence, India, leprosy, Male, Neuritis, Risk Factors, Sexual Behavior, Sexually Transmitted Diseases},
  author = {Jacob M and George S and Pulimood S and Nathan N},
  title = {Short-term follow up of patients with multibacillary leprosy and HIV infection.},
  abstract = {<p>During a period of 9 years, four male patients with HIV and Hansen's disease were detected in Tamil Nadu, South India. The sequence as to which infection came first is not known. All had high-risk sexual behavior with commercial sex workers and a past history of genital ulcer disease. Their spectrum of leprosy was multibacillary. Patient no. 1 had pure neural leprosy of the lepromatous type, which is rare. He also had a single episode of type 1 reaction which did not require steroid therapy. Despite having taken inadequate treatment, patient no. 2 remained clinically and bacteriologically quiescent after 4 years of follow up. He had a low CD4 count of 330 cells/mm3. The third patient completed a full course of multibacillary multidrug therapy, and a year later is clinically and bacteriologically inactive. The fourth patient died of AIDS within 2 months of the dual diagnosis.</p>
},
  year = {1996},
  journal = {International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association},
  volume = {64},
  pages = {392-5},
  month = {1996 Dec},
  issn = {0148-916X},
  url = {http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v64n4a02.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}