Multiple hypoaesthetic, hypopigmented macules on right lateral forearm with numerous acid fast bacilli is indicative of –
Abundance of acidfast bacilli rules out indeterminate and Tuberculoid leprosy.
The choice is between lepromatous leprosy and borderline lepromatous leprosy.
Hypoaesthesia points towards borderline lepromatous as sensation are not lost in lepromatous leprosy.
Tuberculoid leprosy
Lepromatous leprosy
Indeterminate leprosy
Borderline leprosy