TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Arm
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Leg
KW - leprosy
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - polymerase chain reaction
KW - Pregnancy
KW - Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
KW - Skin
AU - Böddinghaus B K
AU - Ludwig R J
AU - Kaufmann R
AU - Enzensberger R
AU - Gies V
AU - Kramme S
AU - Brade V
AU - Brandt C M
AB - <p>Herein, we describe a case of leprosy in a 29-year-old pregnant southeast-asian woman who presented with joint pain and multiple disseminated erythematous macules, papules and plaques. Histological examination and stains for acid-fast bacilli from skin biopsies substantiated the clinical suspicion of a cutaneous mycobacterial disease and both should be performed in all patients with unidentified skin lesions. The definitive laboratory diagnosis of leprosy was achieved by the application of a species-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction from infected tissue.</p>
BT - Infection
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17297589?dopt=Abstract
CN - BODDINGHAUS 2007
DA - 2007 Feb
DO - 10.1007/s15010-006-5129-1
IS - 1
J2 - Infection
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Herein, we describe a case of leprosy in a 29-year-old pregnant southeast-asian woman who presented with joint pain and multiple disseminated erythematous macules, papules and plaques. Histological examination and stains for acid-fast bacilli from skin biopsies substantiated the clinical suspicion of a cutaneous mycobacterial disease and both should be performed in all patients with unidentified skin lesions. The definitive laboratory diagnosis of leprosy was achieved by the application of a species-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction from infected tissue.</p>
PY - 2007
SP - 37
EP - 9
T2 - Infection
TI - Leprosy in a pregnant woman.
VL - 35
SN - 0300-8126
ER -