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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 multibacillary leprosy have six or more lesions with or without positive skin smear results for the causative agent MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE. Multibacillary leprosy encompasses borderline lepromatous, midborderline, and lepromatous leprosy.
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- Borderline Lepromatous
- Leprosy, Multibacillary
- Midborderline Lepromatous
- Lepromatous, Borderline
- Lepromatous, Midborderline
- Leprosies, Multibacillary
- Multibacillary Leprosies
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coordinate with NEGLECTED DISEASES if pertinent
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2010
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- Leprosy (1983-2009)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Multibacillary Leprosy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056006. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056006
- Multibacillary Leprosy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54912179