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Finding Yaws among Indigenous People: Lessons from Case Detection Surveys in Luzon and Visayas Island Groups of the Philippines

Yaws is a chronic, highly contagious skin and bone infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, usually affecting children in impoverished and remote communities. Yaws lesions have thick yellow crusts on pink papillomas that ulcerate and leave deep scars. Yaws cases were confirmed in...

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Autores principales: Dofitas, Belen, Batac, Maria Christina, Richardus, Jan Hendrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9896346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36572006
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.22-0566