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The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 leprosy Hansen's disease tuberculoid leprosy, a chronic disease, caused by Mycobacterium leprae, that may take either of two forms. Tuberculoid leprosy, seen in those with high resistance to the disease-causing bacteria, appears as a thickening of nerves of ...
October 1, 1996; The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia

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