Leprosy in elderly people and the profile of a retrospective cohort in an endemic region of the Brazilian Amazon.

• Main Authors: João Sérgio de Sousa Oliveira (Author), Ana Luisa Mendes Dos Reis (Author), Luana Pereira Margalho (Author), Geovanna Lemos Lopes (Author), Alison Ramos da Silva (Author), Niele Silva de Moraes (Author), Marília Brasil Xavier (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Leprosy has a global presence; more than 180 thousand new cases were registered in 2013, 15% of which were found in the Americas. The elderly are a very susceptible demographic in terms of developing illnesses, mainly because of characteristics natural to the senescence of the human organ...