<![CDATA[Morbus Hansen (MH), also known as leprosy or leprosy, is an infectious disease that causes health problems throughout the world. There were 127,558 new cases of leprosy detected globally in 2020, based on data from 139 countries from 6 World Health Organization regions. Ridley-Jopling classified leprosy based on the patient's immune response into intermediate (I), tuberculoid (TT), borderline-tuberculoid (BT), borderline-borderline (BB), borderline-lepromatous (BL) and lepromatous (LL). This literature aims to look at the characteristics of leprosy lesions based on Ridley Jopling's classification. This research uses a literature review method with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. Scientific articles or journals are downloaded from PubMed, Garuda Portal, and Google Scholar with SINTA IV and V standards in the 2018-2023 period. The keywords in the search for this article were characteristics, description of leprosy lesions, Ridley Jopling classification, 937 articles were obtained in the search results. All articles were selected based on the inclusion criteria, resulting in 20 research articles that would be reviewed. In this literature, there were 20 research articles that reported the characteristics of leprosy lesions based on the Ridley Jopling classification. E4 Characteristics of the appearance of leprosy lesions based on the Ridley Jopling classification, it was found that the borderline category was the most frequently reported with borderline tuberculoid as the most common subtype followed by borderline lepromatous, intermediate leprosy, tuberculoid leprosy and lepromatous type. ]]>
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