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Molecular origin of endemic leprosy in New York City.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Mar 2008
Keo Thormika, Martiniuk Frank, Latkowski JoAnn, Cabrera Aloys, Rom William, Levis William R
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We report an indigenous case of leprosy in New York City in an immunocompetent patient who was infected with a Mycobacterium leprae genotype that is consistent with an exogenous origin. Physicians in the eastern United States should be alerted that, although most patients who develop leprosy in the United States are foreign born, native-born Americans are also susceptible to the infection.
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