| Title |
Rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium leprae in an elderly leprosy patient in the People's Republic of China
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Clinical Interventions in Aging, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.2147/cia.s49653 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Meiwen Yu, Kan Wu, Bing Pei, Degang Yang, Qiulin Wang, Hongsheng Wang, Jianping Shen, Liangbing Yan, Guochen Zhang |
| Abstract |
The reported number of registered leprosy patients worldwide declined with the introduction of multidrug therapy. However, the emergence of rifampicin resistance in leprosy patients engenders difficulties for an individual patient, and its dissemination could pose a threat to leprosy control. This study reports an elderly patient who was diagnosed with rifampicin-resistant lepromatous leprosy. This case indicates that inadequate treatment and poor compliance may eventually result in rifampicin resistance in Mycobacterium leprae and clinical relapse. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 24 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 7 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 7 | 29% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 13% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 13% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 2 | 8% |
| Unknown | 7 | 29% |
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#1,407
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