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What is the average and the longest period molluscum can stay in an adults body ?

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Dr. Stuart Hickerson answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Molluscum: From a study noted in a Cambridge press article from Epidemiology and Infection 2009 the natural history of Molluscum can be a maximum of three years. The researchers studied a population from Fiji. Each outbreak lasted two months and the lesion would fall off not leaving a scar. The average length of infection was 6 months.

Answered 1/18/2020

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