Pham Dang Bang,Koichi Suzuki,Norihisa Ishii et al.
Pham Dang Bang et al.
Kentaro Hatano
Kentaro Hatano
The typical leprosy doctor is disappearing in Japan. One of the reasons for this is that no more new cases arise among people of Japanese nationality. Furthermore, among people of other nationality living in Japan, occurrence of the cases h...
Koichi Suzuki,Yuzuru Nagaoka,Shuichi Mori et al.
Koichi Suzuki et al.
The epidemiological situation of leprosy is reported by the health division of each country to WHO. The reported data is collected by WHO and is immediately run on the Weekly Epidemiological Record. On this latest edition, data from the beg...
Midfacial leprosy [0.03%]
面中部的麻风病
Daifullah Al Aboud,Khalid M Al Aboud,V Ramesh et al.
Daifullah Al Aboud et al.
Leprosy is a chronic bacterial disease that has many clinical presentations. We are reporting a patient who presented with an erythematous plaque over the nose, which was proved to be due to leprosy. We think that this type of clinical feat...
Serological response to chemoprophylaxis in extended contacts in leprosy--a randomized controlled trial [0.03%]
利什曼病接触者的药物预防的血清学反应：随机对照试验
Khin Nwe Oo,Nwe Nwe Yin,Tin Tin Han et al.
Khin Nwe Oo et al.
Chemoprophylaxis was carried out on high risk group of extended contacts of new leprosy cases in Nyaungdon Township, Ayeyarwaddy Division, Myanmar and serological response was followed up for two years. In September 2003, blood samples were...
[Development of a large-scale comparative genome system and its application to the analysis of mycobacteria genomes] [0.03%]
[Mycobacterial比较基因组学系统的建立及其应用]
Yasubumi Sakakibara,Yasunori Osana,Kris Popendorf
Yasubumi Sakakibara
As the number of whole genome sequences available continues to increase rapidly, the raw scale of the sequence data being used in analysis is the first hurdle for comparative genome analysis. When performing whole genome alignments, large-s...
[Mycobacterium shinshuense and Mycobacterium leprae infections: usefulness of genetical examinations] [0.03%]
[麻风分枝杆菌和新穗分枝杆菌感染的基因检测价值]
Kazue Nakanaga,Koichi Suzuki,Kazunari Tanigawa et al.
Kazue Nakanaga et al.
Although Mycobacterium shinshuense and M. leprae infections are relatively rare in the fields of dermatology, an early diagnosis is one of the important prognostic factors of these infections. Applications of the genetical examinations such...
[Summary of questionnaires on slit skin smear test in clinics, hospitals, and university hospitals] [0.03%]
[关于诊所、医院和大学医院皮肤切片检查问卷的总结]
Norihisa Ishii,Koichi Suzuki,Shinichiro Takezaki et al.
Norihisa Ishii et al.
We have performed a questionnaire to survey the present conditions of the slit skin smear test, a method to diagnose leprosy. The answer was obtained from 40 (93.0%) out of 43 clinics, department of dermatology of university and other hospi...
Follow-up of tibialis posterior transfer surgery (TPT) for drop-foot in leprosy [0.03%]
继发性胫后肌腱转移术治疗麻风足下垂的疗效观察
Yutaka Ishida,Saw Lwin,Kyaw Myint
Yutaka Ishida
Prevention of Disability (POD) service needs to be expanded for future reducing the leprosy burden. Tibialis Posterior Transfer Surgery (TPT) is an established procedure and relatively easy to do at district level general hospitals. It can ...
Motoaki Ozaki,Makiko Ishikawa
Motoaki Ozaki
This reports a long-term follow-up study on clinical effects of ofloxacin (OFLX)-combined therapy to 14 leprosy patients with various types and stages. Combined drugs were diaminodiphenyl sulfone (DDS), rifampicin (RFP) and clofazimine. Cli...