title: [Childhood memories…].
abstract: Leprosy is still a largely worldwide spread disease but rarely encountered in metropolitan France. Its identification implies a multidisciplinary clinical, pathological and bacteriological diagnosis which is necessary to an efficient antibiotic treatment against a crippling disease which remains curable. Here we report the case of a 24-year-old man who was showing an original both cutaneous and pulmonary presence of acido-alcooloresistant bacillus which have been identified as Mycobacterium leprae by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This unusual presentation of a cutaneous and pulmonary leprosy raises the problem of its differential diagnoses, including those of non-tuberculosis mycobacterial infections.
authors: Service d'anatomie pathologique, hôpital Morvan, CHU de Brest, 2 avenue Foch, Brest, France. arnophele@yahoo.fr
authors: Arnaud
authors: A
authors: Uguen
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Schoenlaub
authors: Marie-Louise
authors: ML
authors: Abalain
authors: Jean-Luc
authors: JL
authors: Grippari
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015440:Leprosy, Lepromatous / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult