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case_images: Hypopigmented and anaesthetic patches (yellow circles) on skin over right scapula and left deltoid region.
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case_images: F1
case_images: He had noticed hypo-pigmented patches with loss of sensation on the left forearm about 8 months previously, for which he had been prescribed rifampicin, dapsone and clofazimine by a physician in his home town (Fig. 1).
case_images: Sheathed Mf observed in slit-skin smear from ear lobule stained using the Ziehl-Neelsen method with 5 % sulphuric acid as a decolourizer (magnification, 10x).
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case_images: F2
case_images: Initial screening of the slides under a 10x objective led to the incidental finding of sheathed structures resembling Mf on the smear made from ear lobules (Fig. 2).
case_images: Mf observed in Giemsa-stained peripheral blood smear. (Magnification, 10x). Note the absence of nuclei at the tail tip.
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case_images: F3
case_images: Microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained smears showed multiple sheathed Mf with an absence of nuclei at the tail tip (Fig. 3).