Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Infection can...
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Leprosy is the second studio album by American death metal band Death, released on November 16, 1988, by Combat Records.[better source needed] The album...
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Armadillo (redirect from Leprosy in armadillos)
low body temperature, which is hospitable to the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae. (The leprosy bacterium is difficult to culture and armadillos...
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Leprosy stigma is a type of social stigma, a strong negative feeling towards a person with leprosy relating to their moral status in society. It is also...
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Look up leprosy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leprosy is a disease. Leprosy may also refer to: Leprosy (album), an album by the death metal band...
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Although leprosy, or Hansen's Disease, was never an epidemic in The United States, cases of leprosy have been reported in Louisiana as early as the 18th...
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Tuberculoid leprosy is a form of leprosy characterized by solitary skin lesions that are asymmetrically distributed with few lesions and well demarcated...
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Leprosy currently affects approximately a quarter of a million people throughout the world, with the majority of these cases being reported from India...
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Japanese leprosy patients in 2005, but one in 2006, and one in 2007. The route of leprosy into Japan has not been settled but the presence of leprosy in Japan...
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World Leprosy Day is observed internationally every year on the last Sunday of January to increase the public awareness of leprosy or Hansen's Disease...
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ALERT (medical facility) (redirect from Alert leprosy ethiopia)
specializing in Hansen's disease, also known as “leprosy”. It was originally the All Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation and Training Center (hence the acronym)...
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Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital (Urdu: راولپنڈی لیپروسی ہسپتال) is a non-profit leprosy hospital in Pakistan. It is among the oldest leprosy hospitals in...
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Lepromatous leprosy is a form of leprosy characterized by pale macules in the skin.: 346 It results from the failure of Th1 cell activation which is necessary...
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The history of leprosy was traced to its origins by an international team of 22 geneticists using comparative genomics of the worldwide distribution of...
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Mycobacterium leprae (redirect from Leprosy bacillus)
(also known as the leprosy bacillus or Hansen's bacillus) is one of the two species of bacteria that cause Hansen's disease (leprosy), a chronic but curable...
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working towards the goal of zero leprosy transmission by 2035. As well as working towards zero leprosy transmission, The Leprosy Mission is committed to achieving...
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The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution is the debut studio album by the English deathcore band Infant Annihilator. It was released on 12 December 2012. The...
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National Leprosy Eradication Program is a health scheme of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to eradicate leprosy in India...
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Tzaraath (redirect from Leprosy in Biblical times)
English and frequently translated as leprosy (though it is not Hansen's disease, the disease known as "leprosy" in modern times), is a term used in the...
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Leper colony (category Leprosy)
and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy. M. leprae, the bacterium responsible for leprosy, is believed to have spread from East Africa through...
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Lepra (charity) (redirect from British Empire Leprosy Relief Association)
(Leprosy Relief Association) is a UK-based international charity established in 1924, working to diagnose, treat, and rehabilitate people with leprosy...
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diffuse leprosy of Lucio and Latapí, also known as diffuse lepromatous leprosy or "pretty leprosy", is a clinical variety of lepromatous leprosy. It was...
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three million people are estimated to be permanently disabled because of leprosy. India has the greatest number of cases, with Brazil second and Indonesia...
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novo). Leprosy can appear in two forms, tuberculoid leprosy and lepromatous leprosy, and histoid leprosy is a variant of lepromatous leprosy. It appears...
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The Leprosy Mission Australia (TLMA) is a Christian medical charity dedicated to eradicating leprosy, and supporting those affected by the disease. An...
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Leper colony money (redirect from Leprosy colony money)
(sanatoriums for people with leprosy) due to the fear that money could carry leprosy and infect other people. However, leprosy is not easily transmitted...
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leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy. His distinguished work was recognized at the International Leprosy Congress held at Bergen in 1909. Hansen...
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Alice Ball (section Treatment for leprosy)
ester derivatives of chaulmoogra oil, which were used as a treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African...
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settlements were established in 1866 for quarantined treatment of persons with leprosy; these operated until 1969. The Kalaupapa National Historical Park now...
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Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (category Deaths from leprosy)
willpower and dedication to the Latin Kingdom in the face of debilitating leprosy. Choosing competent advisers, Baldwin ruled a thriving crusader state and...
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