Diagnosis, Workup and Treatment. This patient with gradual, painless, blurred vision OD was found to have a unilateral hyperopic shift of 1.5 D from an underlying choroidal mass. The differential diagnosis for a unilateral hyperopic shift includes mechanisms that flatten the cornea, shift the lens posteriorly, or shift the retina anteriorly. In this case, there was an amelanotic choroidal mass that shifted the retina anteriorly.
Q: A: Mycobacterium leprae is the scientific name for the pathogen of Leprosy. It is an intracellular, pleomorphic, acid fast bacterium. M. Leprae is a gram-positive aerobic rod-shaped (bacillus) surrounded by the characteristic waxy coating unique to mycobacteria.hat is the scientific name for leprosy. http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-the-scientific-name-for-leprosy. Leprosy's scientific name is mycobacterium leprae humanum. It's also named  Hansen's disease after its discoverer, G-A Hansen.
Leprosy is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. In addition to pain and disfiguration, biblical leprosy and Hansenâs disease are both dreaded, and people were shunned because of them. The noun tsaraâath appears about two dozen times in the Hebrew text.he term âleprosyâ (including leper, lepers, leprosy, leprous) occurs 68 times in the Bibleâ55 times in the Old Testament (Hebrew = tsaraâath) and 13 times in the New Testament (Greek = lepros, lepra).