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Condyloma subcutaneum

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Molluscum contagiosum.

Wartlike growths around the anus and genitals caused by a virus.

Molluscum contagiosum is a contagious disease of the skin marked by the occurrence of soft rounded tumors of the skin caused by the growth of a virus belonging to the family Poxviridae.

The disease is characterized by the appearance of few to numerous small, pearly, umbilicated downgrowths (the condyloma subcutaneum).

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