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| Year : 2004 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 242-244 |
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Perioral Molluscum Contagiosum in a HIV Seropositive Patient - A Case Report
S Nalin Kumar, K Ranganathan, M Umadevi, Elizabeth Joshua, TR Saraswathi
Department of Oral Pathology, Ragas Dental College & Hospital, # 2/102, East Coast Road, Uthandi, Chennai - 600 119. Tamilnadu, India
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Molluscum Contagiosum (MC) is a skin and mucous membrane disease of viral origin seen in both children and adults. Molluscum Contagiosum Virus (MCV) is transmitted by person-to-person contact, sexual contact or by fomites. MC is seen in immunocompromised and HIV infected patients. In this article, we report a case of perioral molluscum contagiosum in a HIV seropositive patient along with the pathogenesis of the disease and various treatment modalities.
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