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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |