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Over the past few years, leprosy has been studied using large scale techniques to shed light on the basic pathways that, upon infection, rewire the host cellular metabolism and gene expression. <jats:italic>M. leprae<\/jats:italic> is particularly peculiar as it invades Schwann cells in the nerves, reprogramming their gene expression leading to a stem-like cell phenotype. This modulatory behavior exerted by <jats:italic>M. leprae<\/jats:italic> is also observed in skin macrophages. Here, we used live <jats:italic>M. leprae<\/jats:italic> to infect (10:1 multiplicity of infection) monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs) for 48\u00a0h and analyzed the whole gene expression profile using microarrays. In this model, we observe an intense upregulation of genes consistent with a cellular immune response, with enriched pathways including peptide and protein secretion, leukocyte activation, inflammation, and cellular divalent inorganic cation homeostasis. Among the most differentially expressed genes (DEGs) are <jats:italic>CCL5\/RANTES<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>CYP27B1<\/jats:italic>, and several members of the metallothionein and metalloproteinase families. This is consistent with a proinflammatory state that would resemble macrophage rewiring toward granulomatous formation observed at the T-pole. Furthermore, a comparison with a dataset retrieved from the Gene Expression Omnibus of <jats:italic>M. leprae<\/jats:italic>-infected Schwann cells (MOI 100:1) showed that the patterns among the DEGs are highly distinct, as the Schwann cells under these conditions had a scavenging and phagocytic gene profile similar to M2-like macrophages, with enriched pathways rearrangements in the cytoskeleton, lipid and cholesterol metabolism and upregulated genes including <jats:italic>MVK<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>MSMO1<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>LACC1<\/jats:italic>\/<jats:italic>FAMIN<\/jats:italic>. 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