Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome or upgrading Type 1 reaction? Report of two AIDS patients presenting a shifting from borderline lepromatous leprosy to borderline tuberculoid leprosy

Leprosy Review

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 429-435

  Talhari, Carolina ^a,b   De Lima Ferreira, Luiz Carlos ^a,b   Araújo, José Ribamar ^a,b   Talhari, Anette Chrusciak ^a,b   Talhari, Sinésio ^a,b  

^a Tropical Medicine Foundation of Amazonas   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; LEPROSTATIC AGENT;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; MALE; SKIN BIOPSY; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HIV-1; HUMANS; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; MALE;

EID: 63049101388     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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