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Leprosy

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Abstract

Leprosy is an infectious and contagious chronic disease, affecting mainly the skin and the peripheral nerves. It may cause disability due to the peripheral neurological damage, as well as from the ocular disease. Although less frequent, the latter may be severe and irreversible.

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  1. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Fernando Oréfice MD, PhD, Wesley Ribeiro Campos MD, PhD & Cynthia Azeredo Cordeiro MD, PhD

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  1. Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Manfred Zierhut

  2. Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eyes Hospital, Department of Medical Retina, UCL, London, United Kingdom

    Carlos Pavesio

  3. School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University Graduate, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

    Shigeaki Ohno

  4. University of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Fernando Orefice

  5. USC Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Narsing A. Rao

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Oréfice, F., Campos, W.R., Cordeiro, C.A. (2016). Leprosy. In: Zierhut, M., Pavesio, C., Ohno, S., Orefice, F., Rao, N. (eds) Intraocular Inflammation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_102

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