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... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections > Actinomycetales Infections > Mycobacterium Infections > Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous > Leprosy

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Leprosy  

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Entry terms

  • Hansen Disease
  • Hansen's Disease

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; coordinate with NEGLECTED DISEASES if pertinent; rat leprosy = MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS (IM) + MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAEMURIUM (IM); ENL (erythema nodosum leprosum) = LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS (IM) + ERYTHEMA NODOSUM (IM)

Scope note

  • A chronic granulomatous infection caused by MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE. The granulomatous lesions are manifested in the skin, the mucous membranes, and the peripheral nerves. Two polar or principal types are lepromatous and tuberculoid.

In other languages

  • lepra

    Finnish

  • Hansen
  • Hansen's sjukdom eller spital
  • Hansenin tauti
  • lepra non specificata
  • morbus Hansen
  • määrittämätön lepra
  • ospecificerad lepra
  • pitaali
  • spitaali
  • Lepra

    Swedish

  • Hansens sjukdom
  • Spetälska

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007918

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