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MeSH Heading: Leprosy, Paucibacillary
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252.410.040.552.475.371.850
Unique ID: D056005
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D056005
Annotation: 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.
Entry Term(s): Borderline Tuberculoid; Indeterminate Tuberculoid; Paucibacillary Leprosy
Previous Indexing: Leprosy (1979-2009)
Public MeSH Note: 2010
History Note: 2010
Date Established: 2010/01/01
Date of Entry: 2009/07/06
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

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.
Terms: Leprosy, Paucibacillary Preferred Term
Term UI T731225
Date12/05/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010); Borderline Tuberculoid
Term UI T731227
Date12/05/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010); Indeterminate Tuberculoid
Term UI T731226
Date12/05/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010); Paucibacillary Leprosy
Term UI T725843
Date09/16/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010)

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