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جذام
Also known as Hansen's disease, lepras
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AI overview
Leprosy is a long-term bacterial infection that can damage nerves, skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract, sometimes leading to loss of sensation, muscle weakness, blindness, or loss of fingers and toes from unnoticed injuries. Symptoms can appear within a year or take more than 20 years to develop after infection.
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Key facts
- Medical condition.name
- Leprosy
- Medical condition.synonyms
- Hansen's disease (HD)
- Medical condition.image
- Tropmed-91-216-g001.jpg
- Medical condition.caption
- Rash on the chest and abdomen caused by leprosy
- Medical condition.field
- Infectious diseases
- Medical condition.symptoms
- Skin lesions, neuropathy, muscle weakness, partial paralysis, blindness, decreased ability to feel pain
- Medical condition.causes
- Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis
- Medical condition.risks
- Close contact with a case of leprosy, living in poverty
- Medical condition.treatment
- Multidrug therapy
- Medical condition.medication
- Rifampicin, dapsone, clofazimine
- Medical condition.frequency
- 200,000 annually