TY - JOUR
KW - Rifampicin
KW - leprosy
KW - Elderly patient
KW - Drug Resistance
AU - Yu M
AU - Wu K
AU - Pei B
AU - Degang Y
AU - Wang Q
AU - Wang H
AU - Jian-Ping S
AU - Yan L
AU - Zhang G
AB - The reported number of registered leprosy patients worldwide declined with the introduction of multidrug therapy. However, the emergence of rifampicin resistance in leprosy patients engenders difficulties for an individual patient, and its dissemination could pose a threat to leprosy control. This study reports an elderly patient who was diagnosed with rifampicin-resistant lepromatous leprosy. This case indicates that inadequate treatment and poor compliance may eventually result in rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium leprae and clinical relapse.
 
BT - Clinical Interventions in Aging
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23986632
CN - YU 2013
IS - 8
LA - eng
N2 - The reported number of registered leprosy patients worldwide declined with the introduction of multidrug therapy. However, the emergence of rifampicin resistance in leprosy patients engenders difficulties for an individual patient, and its dissemination could pose a threat to leprosy control. This study reports an elderly patient who was diagnosed with rifampicin-resistant lepromatous leprosy. This case indicates that inadequate treatment and poor compliance may eventually result in rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium leprae and clinical relapse.
 
PY - 2013
SP - 1097 
EP -  1099
T2 - Clinical Interventions in Aging
TI - Rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium leprae in an elderly leprosy patient in the People's Republic of China
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754489/pdf/cia-8-1097.pdf
ER -