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This image depicts a close view of a Filipino patient’s skin surface, highlighting a hypopigmented plaque-like, circular lesion, with an accompanying satellite lesion, which was diagnosed as a case of leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, caused by the Gram-positive bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae.
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