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MeSH Heading: Leprosy, Multibacillary
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252.410.040.552.475.371.775
Unique ID: D056006
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D056006
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 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.
Entry Term(s): Borderline Lepromatous; Midborderline Lepromatous; Multibacillary Leprosy
Previous Indexing: Leprosy (1983-2009)
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: M0524817
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 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.
Terms: Leprosy, Multibacillary Preferred Term
Term UI T731228
Date12/05/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010); Borderline Lepromatous
Term UI T731229
Date12/05/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010); Midborderline Lepromatous
Term UI T731230
Date12/05/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010); Multibacillary Leprosy
Term UI T725844
Date09/16/2008
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2010)

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