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