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Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Pinta
Infections > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Pinta
Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Pinta
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections > Spirochaetales Infections > Treponemal Infections > Pinta

Preferred term

Pinta  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • a nonvenereal treponemal skin infect

Scope note

  • An infectious disease of the skin caused by Treponema carateum that occurs only in the western hemisphere. Age of onset is between 10 and 20 years of age. This condition is characterized by marked changes in the skin color and is believed to be transmitted by direct person-to-person contact.

In other languages

  • pinta

    Finnish

  • karate
  • määrittämätön pinta
  • ospecifierad pinta
  • pinta non specificata
  • Pinta

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010874

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