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Sampling sites in patients and controls. Patients were sampled from lesional skin on lower back, upper back, and abdomen and adjacent non-affected skin. In addition, unaffected skin of the forehead and buccal mucosa were sampled. After treatment and in healthy controls samples were obtained from areas corresponding to lesions
