TY - JOUR
KW - Foot
KW - HIV
KW - Infection
KW - leprosy
KW - Literature
KW - Patients
KW - Syndrome
KW - Therapy
KW - Tuberculosis
AU - Mukhopadhyay P
AU - Pal S
AU - Mallik S
AU - Biswas S
AU - Saha B
AB - Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome describes a collection of inflammatory disorders associated with paradoxical deterioration of various pre-existing processes following start of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. Leprosy as an opportunistic infection in immune reconstitution syndrome has been rarely reported in literature. A case of a 30-year-old HIV positive man with extrapulmonary tuberculosis of left foot on HAART having developed borderline tuberculoid leprosy as opportunistic infection in immune reconstitution syndrome has been reported
BT - Indian Journal of Dermatology
DA - 2006///
IS - 4
J2 - Ind J of Dermatology
LA - eng
N2 - Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome describes a collection of inflammatory disorders associated with paradoxical deterioration of various pre-existing processes following start of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. Leprosy as an opportunistic infection in immune reconstitution syndrome has been rarely reported in literature. A case of a 30-year-old HIV positive man with extrapulmonary tuberculosis of left foot on HAART having developed borderline tuberculoid leprosy as opportunistic infection in immune reconstitution syndrome has been reported
PY - 2006
SP - 278 
EP -  280
T2 - Indian Journal of Dermatology
TI - Borderline tuberculoid leprosy: A manifestation of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in a human immunodeficiency virus infected person
UR - http://www.e-ijd.org/article.asp?issn=0019-5154;year=2006;volume=51;issue=4;spage=278;epage=280;aulast=Mukhopadhyay
VL - 51
ER -