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This image depicts a posterior view of a Filipino child’s torso, highlighting the presence of hypopigmented, plaque-like lesions over her lower back, buttocks, and thighs, which were diagnosed as an early case of leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, caused by the Gram-positive bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae.
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