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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

Preferred term

Leprosy, Paucibacillary  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Borderline Tuberculoid
  • Borderline Tuberculoids
  • Indeterminate Tuberculoid
  • Indeterminate Tuberculoids
  • Paucibacillary Leprosy
  • Tuberculoid, Borderline
  • Tuberculoid, Indeterminate
  • Tuberculoids, Borderline
  • Tuberculoids, Indeterminate

Note

  • coordinate with NEGLECTED DISEASES if pertinent

Scope note

  • A form of LEPROSY classified by the World Health Organization for the purpose of treatment, based on clinical manifestations and skin smear results. Patients with paucibacillary leprosy have fewer than six skin lesions with no causative agent MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE on any slit-skin smear testing. Paucibacillary leprosy encompasses indeterminate, borderline tuberculoid, and tuberculoid leprosy.

History note

  • 2010

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D056005

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