Noma, a neglected disease: A viewpoint article

Published on June 25, 2021

This viewpoint article offers a summary of what is known about noma and suggestions for why noma is still neglected, despite the severe ramifications of the infection and the centuries of clinical reporting of the disease in the scientific literature. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

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