1979
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.115.1.106b
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Pre-Columbian rhinoscleroma

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“…14 The first historic evidence of patients with scleroma was of a Mayan Indian terracotta head dated between 300 and 600 AD, which depicted typical nasal proliferate lesions of this disease. 15,16 A positive culture in MacConkey agar is diagnostic of RS, but it is positive in only 50% to 60% of patients. The diagnosis is confirmed by histology.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…14 The first historic evidence of patients with scleroma was of a Mayan Indian terracotta head dated between 300 and 600 AD, which depicted typical nasal proliferate lesions of this disease. 15,16 A positive culture in MacConkey agar is diagnostic of RS, but it is positive in only 50% to 60% of patients. The diagnosis is confirmed by histology.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Respiratory scleroma (RS) is a rare granulomatous chronic infectious disease affecting primarily the nose and upper respiratory tract (Ahmed, El‐Badawy, Mohamed, & Abdelhameed, ). Early historical evidence of RS is depicted in a Mayan terracotta head dated 300 to 600 AD (Goldman, ). This condition was first described by Von Hebra in 1,870 as “scleroma” or “rhinoscleroma”; it is associated with Klebsiella pneumonia subsp.…”
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“…More recently, it has been reported in poorer regions of Central Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, the Middle East, India and Indonesia. There are also cases in non‐endemic areas that are explainable by increased migration 3–5 …”
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