“…Noma is thought to be an opportunistic infectious disease, but its primary cause remains unknown. Previous studies have reported noma to be associated with bacterial and viral infections, including staphylococcus, streptococcus, micrococcus, proteae, fusobacterium necrophorum, AIDS, cytomegalovirus, simian virus 40, and simian retrovirus-1 [3,4,7,8,10,11,17,21].…”