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Shining a light on sarcoidosis: The path from infection to treatment

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A close up image of a brown eye showing the effects of sarcoidosis in the eye with granulomas around the pupil.

Sarcoidosis can often be difficult to diagnose and tricky to treat. The disease, which produces ball-like conglomerates of inflammatory cells called granulomas in the affected organs, looks likely to be caused by a bacterium called Propionibacterium acnes. Dr Yoshinobu Eishi and his team at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, investigate the previously unknown path from P. acnes infection to […]

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