TY - JOUR
KW - DNA, Bacterial
KW - Endemic Diseases
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - New York City
KW - polymerase chain reaction
KW - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
KW - Skin
AU - Keo T
AU - Martiniuk F
AU - Latkowski J
AU - Cabrera A
AU - Rom W
AU - Levis W
AB - <p>We report an indigenous case of leprosy in New York City in an immunocompetent patient who was infected with a Mycobacterium leprae genotype that is consistent with an exogenous origin. Physicians in the eastern United States should be alerted that, although most patients who develop leprosy in the United States are foreign born, native-born Americans are also susceptible to the infection.</p>
BT - Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18269333?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2008 Mar 15
DO - 10.1086/528857
IS - 6
J2 - Clin. Infect. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>We report an indigenous case of leprosy in New York City in an immunocompetent patient who was infected with a Mycobacterium leprae genotype that is consistent with an exogenous origin. Physicians in the eastern United States should be alerted that, although most patients who develop leprosy in the United States are foreign born, native-born Americans are also susceptible to the infection.</p>
PY - 2008
SP - 899
EP - 901
T2 - Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
TI - Molecular origin of endemic leprosy in New York City.
UR - http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/6/899.full.pdf+html?sid=64d8458a-d31d-4e85-a05a-5e5d1a69b0d4
VL - 46
SN - 1537-6591
ER -