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Ulcerative skin lesions among children in Cameroon: It is not always Yaws

2020-08-15

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Outbreaks of yaws-like ulcerative skin lesions in children are frequently reported in tropical and sub-tropical countries. The origin of these lesions might be primarily traumatic or infectious; in the latter case, Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue , the yaws agent, and Haemophilus ducreyi , the agent of chancroid, are two pathogens commonly associated with the aetiology of skin ulcers. In this work, we inves...

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Literature Corpus work: b62b388f-dce8-5cfa-b1a5-566467a962b6
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.14.20162792

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