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Unsolved matters in leprosy: a descriptive review and call for further research

Leprosy, a chronic mycobacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is an infectious disease that has ravaged human societies throughout millennia. This ancestral pathogen causes disfiguring cutaneous lesions, peripheral nerve injury, ostearticular deformity, limb loss and dysfunction, blindn...

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Autores principales: Franco-Paredes, Carlos, Rodriguez-Morales, Alfonso J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4875741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27209077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12941-016-0149-x