The author is reviewing the literature about the association HIV infection and leprosy. So he concludes: 1) there is no correlation between leprosy incidence and HIV infection incidence, despite similarity as far as immuno-system is concerned. 2) Effect of HIV infection on leprosy demands further studies of nervous leprosy pathology. 3) Tendency to increase of such and association is foreseeable, speaking of epidemiocity in developing countries as well as in leprosy foci in Southern Asia and India.
BT - Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1435184?dopt=Abstract DA - 1992 Jul-Sep IS - 3 J2 - Med Trop (Mars) LA - fre N2 -The author is reviewing the literature about the association HIV infection and leprosy. So he concludes: 1) there is no correlation between leprosy incidence and HIV infection incidence, despite similarity as far as immuno-system is concerned. 2) Effect of HIV infection on leprosy demands further studies of nervous leprosy pathology. 3) Tendency to increase of such and association is foreseeable, speaking of epidemiocity in developing countries as well as in leprosy foci in Southern Asia and India.
PY - 1992 SP - 245 EP - 50 T2 - Medecine tropicale : revue du Corps de sante colonial TI - [Infection by the human immunodeficiency virus and leprosy]. VL - 52 SN - 0025-682X ER -