De novo histoid leprosy: a case report from a post-elimination area.

Histoid leprosy is an uncommon variant of lepromatous leprosy that usually follows treatment failure. Occasionally it occurs de novo without any history of previous inadequate or irregular treatment. We, hereby, report a case of de novo histoid leprosy in a 25-year-old man from the post-elimination area of Kashmir, where the prevalence rate of the disease was reported to be 0.17/10000 in March, 2013 (NLEP).