@article{8459,
  keywords = {Adult, Anti-Retroviral Agents, Comorbidity, HIV Infections, Humans, Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome, leprosy, Male},
  author = {Chow D and Okinaka L and Souza S and Shikuma C and Tice A},
  title = {Hansen's disease with HIV: a case of immune reconstitution disease.},
  abstract = {<p>Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is an acute symptomatic expression of a latent infection during the recovery of the immune system usually as a response to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Opportunistic infections can trigger IRIS. Hansen's disease is an infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae). There have been a limited number of case reports reporting the presentation of the co-infection of HIV and M. leprae. We report an unique case of IRIS in a patient co-infected with HIV and M. leprae presenting as an exacerbation of his Hansen's Disease where the patient's skin lesions progressed from borderline tuberculoid to lepromatous leprosy following ART administration.</p>},
  year = {2009},
  journal = {Hawaii medical journal},
  volume = {68},
  pages = {27-9},
  month = {2009 Mar},
  issn = {0017-8594},
  language = {eng},
}