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Inoculation site leprosy in a tattoo as a paradoxical reaction following tuberculosis treatment.

Branagan P, Moran B, Fitzgibbon M, et al. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 2016; 20 (5) : 706-8.

Abstract

We present a patient who developed inoculation site leprosy in a tattoo, which was confirmed by Mycobacterium leprae DNA sequencing of a polymerase chain reaction product from a skin biopsy. His leprosy became manifest as a paradoxical reaction only after 8 weeks of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Branagan P

Moran B

Fitzgibbon M

Reid V

McMenamin M

Kane M