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Borderline tuberculoid hansens with type 1 reaction in a HIV patient: an IRIS phenomenon over an unusual site

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is an acute symptomatic expression of a latent infection during the recovery of the immune system and it occurs as a response to antiretroviral therapy. Opportunistic infections can act as a trigger for IRIS. Hansens disease is an infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae. There are very few case reports reporting the development of borderline tuberculoid hansens with type 1 reaction as IRIS. We here report a unique case of IRIS in a HIV patient who presented with borderline tuberculoid leprosy with type 1 lepra reaction presenting over unusual site following highly active antiretroviral therapy administration.