leprosy

Details

Instance of

type of disease

Subclass of

primary bacterial infectious disease, mycobacterium infectious disease, eye disease, peripheral neuropathy, testicular disease, upper respiratory tract disease, neglected tropical disease

described by source

Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

different from

Reporting from underworld

disease transmission process

contact transmission

drug or therapy used for treatment

clofazimine, dapsone, DL-ofloxacin, rifampicin, minocycline, azithromycin, clarithromycin, prednisolone

genetic association

RPS6KA4, RIPK2, TNFSF15

has cause

Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium lepromatosis

health specialty

infectious diseases

history of topic

history of leprosy

ICD-9-CM

030, 030.9

maximal incubation period in humans

20

minimal incubation period in humans

1

named after

Gerhard Armauer Hansen

number of cases

173358

possible treatment

pharmacotherapy

prevalence

0.00002730303, 0.00001731521, 0.00000352488, 0.00014898089, 0.00001558304, 0.00017726101, 0.00002567265, 0.00003534417, 0.00001686689, 15, 8, 13

symptoms and signs

polyneuropathy, hypoesthesia, depigmentation, paresthesia, muscle atrophy, contracture, mutilation, lagophthalmos, keratitis, nasal septal perforation, nosebleed, dystrophy

topic's main category

Category:Leprosy

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