PMC4700577_01
a 22-year-old Filipino woman with leprosy initially suspected for sarcoidosis. The patient was designated as a case of BT/BB with a type 1 reaction (a). WADE FITE special stain of skin biopsy showing the acid fast M. leprae bacilli. b
Slightly elevated, scaly and light coppery coloured plaques on the right leg. Similar lesions were present universally
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Fig1
Skin biopsies were obtained from all patients, often on the suspicion of other dermatological disease (Fig. 1).