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1 Clinical and pathological recognition of leprosy
Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD, MPH, Jeannette Guarner, MD, Don Mehrabi, MD, Calvin McCall, MD, Carlos del Rio, MD  The American Journal of Medicine  Volume 114, Issue 3, Pages (February 2003) DOI: /S (02)

2 Figure 1 Diffuse infiltration, with more than five lesions on the anterior chest and abdomen, with multiple hypopigmented macular hypoesthetic lesions that have raised erythematous borders characteristic of lepromatous leprosy. The American Journal of Medicine  , DOI: ( /S (02) )

3 Figure 2 Modified Ziehl-Neelsen stain (Fite-Faraco) demonstrating abundant acid-fast bacilli inside the foamy macrophages (original magnification × 250). The American Journal of Medicine  , DOI: ( /S (02) )


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