Repository Penicillin Therapy of Pinta in the Mexican Peasant
| Autor: | Kitchen Dk, Charles R. Rein, Francisco Marquez, Gerardo Varela |
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| Rok vydání: | 1952 |
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Western hemisphere
medicine.medical_specialty Public health Tropical disease Cell Biology Dermatology Census medicine.disease Biochemistry Peasant Penicillin Geography Environmental protection parasitic diseases medicine Ethnology Molecular Biology Treponematosis geographic locations medicine.drug Pinta |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 18:137-145 |
| ISSN: | 0022-202X |
| DOI: | 10.1038/jid.1952.17 |
| Popis: | Pinta, or mal del pinto, is a non-venereal treponematosis known by many colloquial names. It is an ancient primitive tropical disease essentially in the Western Hemisphere which probably existed among the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Iriate (1) believes that at least 400,000 cases are present in Colombia. The Mexican Public Health Department Census (2) in 1929-1931, revealed a prevalence of more than 250,000 cases in Mexico with a predominance in the southern and southwestern areas. It is estimated that the prevalence has increased to more than one-half million patients with this disease in Mexico. The disease also occurs in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Central America. |
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