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Collage of microbes, bacteria, disease

Clinical Vignette 2

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Child with failure to thrive, hypertrophied gums and funny looking costo-chondral junctions. Seen in Malaysia in 1969.

Diagnosis:

Scurvy and a scorbutic rosary. A full description of this case is found in,聽MacLean JD, Kamath KR: Infantile Scurvy in聽Malaysia. Med Journal聽Malaysia聽24;200, 1970.

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