Leprosy: skin section

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Leprosy: skin section. Wellcome Collection. CC0 1.0 Universal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Lepromatous leprosy (LL): skin This is a high power view of a skin section in LL. There are reddish-staining, fragmented and granular acid-fast bacilli (AFB) seen within foamy macrophages. Wade-Fite stain. The bacillary index (BI) = 5+.

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