Modern Treatments for Leprosy

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History of Leprosy

Multi Drug therapy

Figure 1. TEM of a Mycobacterium leprae bacteria in the skin of a patient. Source: http://web.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2006/Leprosy/Bacteria_files/image005.jpg
Firgure 2. Graph depicting the global prevalence of and new-case rate of leprosy. Source: http://www.scielosp.org/img/revistas/bwho/v83n3/fig_1_3730.gif