Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

To study the histopathological features of different clinical types of leprosy. Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, infectious in some cases and affecting the peripheral nervous system, the skin, and certain other tissues like the bones, eyes, reticuloendothelial system, kidney and testes.

Mycobacterium leprae is a capsulated, straight or slightly curved, non-motile, non-sporing, acid-fast, rod shaped organism. The polar forms of leprosy are the tuberculoid leprosy and lepromatous leprosy. The sub-polar forms are the borderline tuberculoid, borderline-borderline and the borderline lepromatous.