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

Preferred term

Leprosy, Borderline  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Dimorphous Leprosies
  • Dimorphous Leprosy
  • Leprosies, Dimorphous
  • Leprosy, Dimorphous

Note

  • coordinate with NEGLECTED DISEASES if pertinent

Scope note

  • A form of LEPROSY in which there are clinical manifestations of both principal types (lepromatous and tuberculoid). The disease may shift toward one of these two polar or principal forms.

History note

  • 89

In other languages

  • rajamuotolepra

    Finnish

  • borderline leprosy
  • borderline-lepra
  • dimorfinen lepra
  • lepra limitalis
  • lepra limitaris
  • rajamuotoinen lepra
  • Borderline lepra

    Swedish

  • Lepra, borderline

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015439

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