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Etiology/Pathophysiology

100

Leprosy is also known as ______

Hansen's disease

200

The means by which the leprosy pathogen is mainly transmitted is the ______

Inhalation/ mucosa lining of the respiratory system

300

There are ____ different ways of classifying leprosy according to the WHO 

Two

400

True or false: the incubation period for M. leprae is usually short, and symptoms may manifest within 2 weeks.

False

500

The use of more than one medication to approach treatment for leprosy is called __________

Multiple Drug Therapy (MDT)

Diagnostics/Treatment

100

True or false: The following medications are currently being used to treat leprosy: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine

True

200

Nerve and muscle involvement in late term leprosy is distinctively characterized by ______

external limb deformity

300

Why is it difficult to culture the leprosy pathogen in a lab setting?

The pathogen takes a really long time to grow

400

According to the conventional method of classifying leprosy, we have paucibaillary leprosy and ____ leprosy

multibacillary

500

The morbidity of leprosy is usually characterized by the response of the host's____

Immune response

Epidemiology

100

Which continent has the least global burden of new leprosy cases?

Europe with only 32 newly reported cases out of a globally reported 214,783 in 2016

200

The WHO Global leprosy update shows the burden of incidence of leprosy to be slightly higher in females than in males. True or false?

False- women made up 49% of total global incidence

300

With 88,166 new cases reported according to the WHO Global Leprosy Update, this country had the highest reported incidence

India

400

The elimination of leprosy as a global health problem (where the prevalence rates were less than 1/10,000), was achieved in which year?

The year 2005

500

In a study financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation by the Global Burden Collaborators, leprosy was seen to have a marginal decrease in DALYs from 2005-2015. True or false?

False. There was a marginal increase from 30,800 years to 31,000 years.