1. Leprosy in Nonimmigrant Canadian Man without Travel outside North America, 2014.
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Bonnar, Paul E., Cunningham, Natalie P., Boggild, Andrea K., Walsh, Noreen M., Sharma, Rahul, and Davis, Ian R.C.
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HANSEN'S disease , *RARE diseases , *MYCOBACTERIUM leprae , *TRAVEL hygiene , *ARMADILLOS , *ANTIBIOTICS , *COMBINATION drug therapy , *DAPSONE , *LEPROSTATIC agents , *MYCOBACTERIUM , *QUINOLONE antibacterial agents , *RIFAMPIN , *TRAVEL , *THERAPEUTICS ,HANSEN'S disease diagnosis - Abstract
In Canada, Hansen disease (leprosy) is rare and not considered in diagnoses for nonimmigrant patients. We report Mycobacterium leprae infection in a Canadian man whose sole travel was to Florida, USA. The M. leprae isolate was identified as armadillo-associated genotype 3I-2-v1. Travelers to the southern United States should avoid contact with armadillos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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