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Descriptor English: Leprosy, Paucibacillary
Descriptor Spanish: Lepra Paucibacilar
Descriptor lepra paucibacilar
Entry term(s) lepra tuberculoide dimorfa
lepra tuberculoide indeterminada
Scope note: Forma de LEPRA clasificada por la Organización Mundial de la Salud con fines de tratamiento, basándose en las manifestaciones clínicas y en los resultados de los extendidos cutáneos. Los pacientes con lepra paucibacilar tienen menos de seis lesiones cutáneas y las extensiones de raspados cutáneos no son positivas para el agente causal MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE. La lepra paucibacilar comprende la lepra tuberculoide indeterminada, la lepra tuberculoide fronteriza dimorfa y la lepra tuberculoide.
Descriptor Portuguese: Hanseníase Paucibacilar
Descriptor French: Lèpre paucibacillaire
Entry term(s): Borderline Tuberculoid
Borderline Tuberculoids
Indeterminate Tuberculoid
Indeterminate Tuberculoids
Leprosies, Paucibacillary
Paucibacillary Leprosies
Paucibacillary Leprosy
Tuberculoid, Borderline
Tuberculoid, Indeterminate
Tuberculoids, Borderline
Tuberculoids, Indeterminate
Tree number(s): C01.150.252.410.040.552.475.371.850
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D056005
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.
Annotation: coordinate with NEGLECTED DISEASES if pertinent
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Leprosy (1979-2009)
Public MeSH Note: 2010
History Note: 2010
DeCS ID: 53482
Unique ID: D056005
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Date Established: 2010/01/01
Date of Entry: 2009/07/06
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Leprosy, Paucibacillary - Preferred
Concept UI M0524816
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.
Preferred term Leprosy, Paucibacillary
Entry term(s) Borderline Tuberculoid
Borderline Tuberculoids
Indeterminate Tuberculoid
Indeterminate Tuberculoids
Leprosies, Paucibacillary
Paucibacillary Leprosies
Paucibacillary Leprosy
Tuberculoid, Borderline
Tuberculoid, Indeterminate
Tuberculoids, Borderline
Tuberculoids, Indeterminate



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