01317nas a2200193   4500000000100000008004100001653001600042653001300058653001200071653002500083653001600108100001100124245009400135856007800229300001400307490000700321520078100328022001401109       2017                            d10aOral Health10aChildren10aleprosy10aMycobacterium leprae10aSkin biopsy1 aJain M00aLeprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child - An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation.  uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5449936/pdf/jcdr-11-ZD19.pdf  aZD19-ZD200 v113 a<p>Leprosy is a contagious and granulomatous disease which is caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The incubation period for leprosy is five to seven years and it can take as long as about 30 years before signs and symptoms of leprosy develop in some patients. It is a chronic systemic disease which mostly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. It has been seen that indeterminate leprosy is the most common type seen in childhood followed by tuberculoid variant. Borderline lepromatous and lepromatous leprosy are only occasionally encountered in children and rarely affects the oral cavity. Here, we report a rare case of an eight-year-old female child patient who presented primarily with oral manifestations and was subsequently diagnosed as having lepromatous leprosy.</p>
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