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This image depicts a posterolateral view of the skin surface a Filipino patient’s left upper arm, highlighting a 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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