1. Yaws in Sumatra, Indonesia, 1988.
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Engelkens, H. J. H., Jubianto, J., Noordhoek, G. T., van Embden, J., van der Sluis, J. J., Vuzevski, V. D., and Stolz, E.
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YAWS ,SYMPTOMS ,TREPONEMATOSES ,MEDICAL care - Abstract
The article presents information on patients of Yaws who were examined at six health centres situated at a distance from the capital city of Sumatra Barat, Padang, a total of 214 individuals were examined in November 1988. Patients with yaws were diagnosed clinically and serologically. Patients with yaws who had been previously treated patients with clinical yaws without serological data. Some of the cases that were examined included some who had yaws in the past; sero-positive individuals with a negative yaws history; sero-positive individuals in whom a different diagnosis was made.
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- 1990
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