title: The difficulty in diagnosis and treatment of leprosy.
abstract: Leprosy is still an important and debilitating disease with a broad clinical spectrum. However, this disease occurs most often endemically, and as an imported disease it can also still be recognized in the nonendemic industrialized world.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Forno
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Häusermann
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hatz
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Itin
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blum
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009166:Mycobacterium leprae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011379:Prognosis; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D012874:Skin Diseases, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis; D013548:Sweden; D013792:Thalidomide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014195:Travel; D016896:Treatment Outcome
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D013792:Thalidomide; D011241:Prednisone