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This photograph depicted a left lateral view of a young man’s head and upper body, and highlighted the severe right paranasal swelling, diagnosed as a case of ghondou, a tertiary, or third stage form of yaws, caused by the bacterium, Treponema pallidum pertenue. Yaws is also referred to as framboesia tropica.
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