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Prognosis

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There is an cure rate of 65-90% from the initial treatment of the infection.

Possible reasons for treatment failure include:

  • auto-infection
  • re-infection
  • failure to use treatment correctly
  • presence of predisposing factors e.g. diabetes mellitus, immunosuppression etc.

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