The author is reviewing the literature about the association HIV infection and leprosy. So he concludes: 1) there is no correlation between leprosy incidence and HIV infection incidence, despite similarity as far as immuno-system is concerned. 2) Effect of HIV infection on leprosy demands further studies of nervous leprosy pathology. 3) Tendency to increase of such and association is foreseeable, speaking of epidemiocity in developing countries as well as in leprosy foci in Southern Asia and India.
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