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Latest revision as of 18:10, 18 September 2017

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]

There are no laboratory tests that diagnose leprosy.

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 ==Overview==
+There are no laboratory tests that diagnose leprosy.
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-No laboratory tests are available for the [[diagnosis]] of leprosy.<ref name="pmid16830639">{{cite journal| author=Rea TH, Jerskey RS| title=Clinical and histologic variations among thirty patients with Lucio's phenomenon and pure and primitive diffuse lepromatosis (Latapi's lepromatosis). | journal=Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis | year= 2005 | volume= 73 | issue= 3 | pages= 169-88 | pmid=16830639 | doi= | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=16830639  }} </ref>
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