Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don't know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease's symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...

Leprosy has existed since at least Biblical times, yet scientists still don't know exactly how Mycobacterium leprae causes the disease's symptoms. Though antibiotics can treat the illness, researchers ...

Leprosy hijacks our immune system, turning an important repair mechanism into one that causes potentially irreparable damage to our nerve cells, according to new research that uses zebrafish to study ...

Leprosy. We’ve all heard of it, but do you really know what causes it? What does the word make you think of? A disease that people got a long, long time ago? A super-contagious condition that causes ...

This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (K Suzuki and N Ishii), a Grant-in-Aid for Research ...

Reviews of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 9, No. 3 (May - Jun., 1987), pp. 562-577 (16 pages) Leprosy has been considered to occur only after exposure to a human case. However, evidence has been ...

Standard multidrug therapy for leprosy may be associated with severe side effects, which add to the stigma and discrimination that affect persons with the disease. In addition, the threat posed by ...

Rising cases of leprosy in the Southeast U.S. point to the possibility of the disease becoming endemic to the region, and a high concentration of those cases were reported in central Florida.

Hansen’s disease (also known as leprosy) has afflicted humans for thousands of years — it has been cited throughout history, ...

Scientists have detected leprosy in wild chimpanzees for the first time, and the symptoms resemble those in infected people. A team of researchers recently found leprosy-infected chimps in unconnected ...

Years-old tissue samples from armadillos in museum collections may harbor Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, according to recent research my ...