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Example sentences for: leprosy

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The Food and Drug Administration approved thalidomide as a treatment for leprosy complications.
Thalidomide relieves symptoms of AIDS and leprosy.
So maybe this is the wrong moment to cash in your reputation as a saint--based on two and a half decades spent bathing patients in a South American leprosy clinic--for a job (with 50 percent equity stake) as CEO of Leper.com (soon to be LPRC on the NASDAQ).
Another food crisis was reported from Australia, where the Sydney Morning Herald reported that an estimated 800 out of 30,000 flocks of sheep in New South Wales were infected with OJD (Ovine Johnes disease), a wasting disorder similar to leprosy in humans.
Dominance of particular HLA alleles conferring resistance, and/or recessiveness of susceptibility (poor outcome) alleles, have been documented for schistosomiasis [ 24 ] , leprosy [ 25 ] , acute lymphoblastic leukemia (for which an infectious cause is hypothesized) [ 26 ] , and hepatitis B (in this case the outcome was vaccine responsiveness) [ 27 ] .