Diagnosis, Diagnostics, Immunodiagnosis & Immunodiagnostics:

8032.   Ang P, Tay YK, Ng SK, Seow CS. Fatal Lucio's phenomenon in 2 patients with previously undiagnosed leprosy. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2003 Jun;48(6):958-61. 

8033. Hernandez MO, Neves I, Sales JS, Carvalho DS, Sarno EN, Sampaio EP. Induction of apoptosis in monocytes by Mycobacterium leprae in vitro: a possible role for tumour necrosis factor-alpha. Immunology. 2003 May;109(1):156-64. 

8034.   Mehdi G, Maheshwari V, Gaur S, Sharma R. Histoid leprosy: diagnosis by fine needle aspiration cytology. Acta Cytol. 2003 May-Jun;47(3):529-31.

8035.   Singh N, Malik A, Arora VK, Bhatia A. Fine needle aspiration cytology of leprous neuritis. Acta Cytol. 2003 May-Jun;47(3):368-72. 

Pathogenesis:

8036. Bochud PY, Hawn TR, Aderem A. Cutting edge: a Toll-like receptor 2 polymorphism that is associated with lepromatous leprosy is unable to mediate mycobacterial signaling. J Immunol. 2003 Apr 1;170(7):3451-4. 

Therapy:

8037.   Durrheim DN, Speare R. Global leprosy elimination: time to change more than the elimination target date. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2003 May;57(5):316-7.