ID#: 15497
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Viewed from a right posterolateral perspective, this patient had presented to a clinical setting with a case of lepromatous leprosy, displaying one of its symptoms exhibited here, a blotchy, cutaneous discoloration known as erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL). Note the numerous cutaneous erythematous blotchy lesions on the patient’s back, right shoulder, and upper arm. This illness is caused by the bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Arthur E. Kaye
Creation Date: 1970
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