Clinical forms of Leprosy and imnune response

Description

Leprosy is classified on the Ridley-Jopling scale as tuberculoid (TT), borderline-tuberculoid (BT), borderline-borderline (BB), borderline-lepromatous (BL), and lepromatous leprosy (LL). TT leprosy shows strong cell-mediated immunity, while BL/LL leprosy exhibits a high level of humoral immunity. Patients are classified as paucibacillary (PB) and multibacillary (MB) based on the number of lesions, with treatment lasting 6 months for PB and 12 months for MB.

Acknowledgements

References

Ridley DS, Jopling WH. Classification of leprosy according to immunity. A five-group system. Int J Lepr Other Mycobact Dis. 1966;34(3):255–73. Chemotherapy of leprosy for control programmes. World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser. 1982;675:1–33

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