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Stigma, psychosocial and economic effects of yaws in the Philippines: an exploratory, qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Yaws is a chronic, non-venereal, highly contagious skin and bone infection affecting children living in impoverished, remote communities and caused by Treponema pallidum subspecie pertenue. Social stigma and economic losses due to yaws have been reported anecdotally in the Southern Phili...

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Autores principales: Dofitas, Belen Lardizabal, Kalim, Sherjan P., Toledo, Camille B., Richardus, Jan Hendrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35794656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41182-022-00433-4