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The tongue becomes fibrous with raised red nodules (2-3mm across) along the surface. This lesion is a pyogenic granuloma containing large numbers of the bacterial mirocolonies surrounded by clublike spicules of calcium phosphate which look like sulphur granules.
 
The tongue becomes fibrous with raised red nodules (2-3mm across) along the surface. This lesion is a pyogenic granuloma containing large numbers of the bacterial mirocolonies surrounded by clublike spicules of calcium phosphate which look like sulphur granules.
 
This type of lesion is caused by the host response to the pathogen, rather than directly a pathogen effect.
 
This type of lesion is caused by the host response to the pathogen, rather than directly a pathogen effect.
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