Tattoos and paucibacillary leprosy

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 325-326

  Singh, Ranjan Kumar ^a  

^a Civil Surgeon Office   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; DAPSONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RIFAMPICIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; LEG SWELLING; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PAUCIBACILLARY LEPROSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TATTOO; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DAPSONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY; MIDDLE AGED; RIFAMPIN; TATTOOING;

EID: 69949105159     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.04.002     Document Type: Letter

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