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BACILLE LEPRE [3 records]

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Record 1 2012-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
  • The Skin
DEF

A strongly acid-fast, rod-shaped bacterium that causes leprosy.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines
  • Appareil cutané
DEF

Bactérie responsable de la forme humaine classique de lèpre.

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
  • The Skin
DEF

Leprosy characterized by a good response to M. leprae. It may be purely neural or both neural and dermal [and is] never widespread but is localized to one area or to a few areas asymmetrically.

OBS

Classification of Ridley and Jopling: TT.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines
  • Appareil cutané
DEF

[Lèpre] caractérisée par une «bonne» réponse de l'individu vis-à-vis de M. leprae. Elle se traduit par un petit nombre de lésions cutanées et d’atteintes névritiques, par l'absence de bacille décelable ou la très faible charge bacillaire, par l'existence d’un granulome lympho-éphitélioïde et par une intradermo-réaction positive à la lépromine(réaction de Mitsuda).

OBS

Classification de Ridley et Jopling : TT.

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
  • The Skin
DEF

Malignant form [of leprosy] that occurs in persons with little or no resistance (cell-mediated immunity) against leprous infection. It is characterized: 1) clinically, by early skin lesions, mucosal changes and late neural and systemic involvement; 2) bacteriologically, by abundant bacilli in the lesions; 3) histologically, by characteristic, granulomatous infiltrate composed of "lepra cells" containing globi of bacilli and Virchow cells; 4) immunologically, by a negative lepromin test indicating absence of cell-mediated immunity.

OBS

Classification of Ridley and Jopling: LL.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines
  • Appareil cutané
DEF

[Lèpre] qui traduit une incapacité totale de réponse immunitaire vis-à-vis de M. leprae, avec multiplication et dissémination du bacille dans l'organisme. Les lésions cutanées et neurologiques sont très nombreuses, la charge bacillaire très importante, l'histologie révèle un granulome de «cellules de Virchow» pauvre en lymphocytes et la réaction de Mitsuda est négative.

OBS

Classification de Ridley et Jopling : LL.

Key term(s)
  • lèpre polaire lépromateuse

Spanish

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