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Abstract
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.
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- Borderline Tuberculoid
- Indeterminate Tuberculoid
- Leprosy, Paucibacillary
- Borderline Tuberculoids
- Indeterminate Tuberculoids
- Leprosies, Paucibacillary
- Paucibacillary Leprosies
- Tuberculoid, Borderline
- Tuberculoid, Indeterminate
- Tuberculoids, Borderline
- Tuberculoids, Indeterminate
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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 (1979-2009)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Paucibacillary Leprosy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D056005. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D056005
- Paucibacillary Leprosy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54911701