ID#: 19215
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This Indian patient’s left chest, exhibited a complication associated with a case of lepromatous leprosy, known as erythema nodosum (EN) leprosum, and had been caused by the bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae. Under the newer World Health Organization (WHO) standards, lepromatous leprosy has been reclassified as multibacillary (MB), leprosy.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Andre J. Lebrun
Creation Date: 1969
Photo Credit: J. Justin Older, MD
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