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Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
Research Letter

Intact Mycobacterium leprae Isolated from Placenta of a Pregnant Woman, China

Zhiming Chen1, Yanfei Kuang1, Haiqin Jiang, Wenyue Zhang, Ying Shi, Santosh Chokkakula, Huan Chen, Junhua LiComments to Author , and Hongsheng WangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Institute of Dermatology, Nanjing, China (Z. Chen, H. Jiang, W. Zhang, Y. Shi, S. Chokkakula, H. Wang); Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha, China (Y. Kuang, H. Chen, J. Li); Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Skin Diseases and STIs, Nanjing (H. Wang); Nanjing Medical University Center for Global Health, Nanjing (H. Wang)

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Clinical features of Mycobacterium leprae infection in pregnant woman and pathologic characteristics of a biopsy and placenta samples, China, December 2017. A, B) multiple brown papules and firm nodules on the woman’s trunk and face and ichththyosis presentation on the anterior tibia. C, D) Testing of biopsy sample from the face demonstrates subepidermal clear zone, nodular proliferation of spindle shaped histiocytes in the dermis. Hematoxylin and eosin stain; original magnification ×10 (C) and

Figure. Clinical features of Mycobacterium leprae infection in pregnant woman and pathologic characteristics of a biopsy and placenta samples, China, December 2017. A, B) multiple brown papules and firm nodules on the woman’s trunk and face and ichththyosis presentation on the anterior tibia. C, D) Testing of biopsy sample from the face demonstrates subepidermal clear zone, nodular proliferation of spindle shaped histiocytes in the dermis. Hematoxylin and eosin stain; original magnification ×10 (C) and ×40 (D). E) Numerous acid-fast bacilli in dermis (arrows). Acid-fast stain; original magnification ×100. F) Intact rod-shaped M. leprae from placenta homogenate; inset shows larger view. Acid-fast stain, original magnification ×100.

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1These authors contributed equally to and are co–first authors for this article.

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