TY - JOUR KW - Anti-Infective Agents KW - Diagnosis, Differential KW - Female KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Middle Aged KW - Mycobacterium leprae KW - Prednisone KW - Prognosis KW - Rheumatic Diseases KW - Sarcoidosis KW - Skin Diseases, Infectious KW - Sweden KW - Thalidomide KW - Travel KW - Treatment Outcome AU - Forno C AU - Häusermann P AU - Hatz CF AU - Itin P AU - Blum J AB -
Leprosy is still an important and debilitating disease with a broad clinical spectrum. However, this disease occurs most often endemically, and as an imported disease it can also still be recognized in the nonendemic industrialized world.
BT - Journal of travel medicine C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20636605?dopt=Abstract DA - 2010 Jul-Aug DO - 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00419.x IS - 4 J2 - J Travel Med LA - eng N2 -Leprosy is still an important and debilitating disease with a broad clinical spectrum. However, this disease occurs most often endemically, and as an imported disease it can also still be recognized in the nonendemic industrialized world.
PY - 2010 SP - 281 EP - 3 T2 - Journal of travel medicine TI - The difficulty in diagnosis and treatment of leprosy. VL - 17 SN - 1708-8305 ER -