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==Circumcision infection==
Circumcision is a surgical operation and [[amputation]] that creates an open surgical wound on the [[penis]]. The open wound does not heal immediately. For a period of time during and after the surgery it is subject to invasion by a wide variety of bacterial, viral, or fungal pathogens.<ref name="williams1993">{{REFjournal
|last=Williams
|first=
|init=N
|author-link=
|last2=Kapilla
|first2=Leela
|etal=no
|title=Complications of circumcision
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Brit J Surg
|location=
|date=1993-10
|volume=80
|issue=10
|article=
|page=
|pages=1231-6
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/williams-kapila/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=8242285
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1002/bjs.1800801005
|accessdate=2022-01-08
}}</ref>
Professor [[L. Emmett Holt]] (1913) reported 41 cases of tuberculosis in ritually circumcised boys who had been infected by tubercular [[Mohel| mohels]], of whom 16 had died at the time of writing.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Holt
|init=LE
|author-link=
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/holt1/
|title=Tuberculosis acquired through ritual circumcision
|journal=JAMA
|date=1913
|volume=LXI
|issue=2
|pages=99-102
|accessdate=2022-1-8
}}</ref>
{{REF}}
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[[Category:Circumcision complication]]
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