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Hansen’s Disease- a disease being eradicated?
Rocha, Elsa; Jesus, Gorete; Neves, Clarinda; Sá, Dulcínea; Araújo, Eliana; Pinheiro, Beatriz; Borralho, Teresa; Geraldo, Pires; Fernandes, BárbaraLeprosy is an ancient chronic granulomatous disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Prevalence varies greatly from country to country and it represents an important public health problem in developing countries. Despite the efforts of the WHO to eradicate this disease, it has a prevalence greater than 1/10,000 in one group of fifteen countries, led by India and Brazil.Clinical features are skin lesions and sens...
Longstanding polyarthritis and Whipple´s Disease – a clinical case
Oliveira, Júlia; Araújo, Eliana; Crespo, Jorge; Almiro, Eurico; Porto, ArmandoWhipple’s Disease is a rare systemic disease caused by a Gram-positive bacillus: Tropheryma whippelii. Diagnosis is based on the clinical picture of arthralgia, weight loss, diarrhea and abdominal pain, symptoms which can often be attributed to other diseases.Longstanding rheumatic manifestations usually precede the digestive ones, as happened in this case, in which they began seven years prior to diagnosis.A s...