TY - JOUR
KW - Autochthonous leprosy
KW - Europe
KW - Hansen's disease
KW - Immune reactions
AU - Beauvillain Q
AU - Lok C
AU - Joachim C
AU - Hamdad F
AU - Lafabregue E
AU - Attencourt C
AU - Sevestre H
AU - Chaby G
AB - <p>Leprosy is currently uncommon in Europe: the diagnosed cases are almost allimported from endemic areas. We report on an autochthonous case of borderline lepromatous leprosy in a 71 year-old Portuguese woman. The case was complicated by a reversal reaction and then by erythema nodosum leprosum. A review of the literature identified 18 reported cases of European autochthonous leprosy since 2000, all but one were observed in Mediterranean countries. Active clusters of leprosy therefore persist in Europe particularly in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy.</p>
BT - International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
C1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34271204
DA - 07/2021
DO - 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.023
J2 - Int J Infect Dis
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Leprosy is currently uncommon in Europe: the diagnosed cases are almost allimported from endemic areas. We report on an autochthonous case of borderline lepromatous leprosy in a 71 year-old Portuguese woman. The case was complicated by a reversal reaction and then by erythema nodosum leprosum. A review of the literature identified 18 reported cases of European autochthonous leprosy since 2000, all but one were observed in Mediterranean countries. Active clusters of leprosy therefore persist in Europe particularly in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy.</p>
PY - 2021
T2 - International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
TI - Autochthonous leprosy in Europe: a case report and literature review.
UR - https://www.ijidonline.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1201-9712%2821%2900580-4
SN - 1878-3511
ER -