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

• Главные авторы: João Sérgio de Sousa Oliveira (Автор), Ana Luisa Mendes Dos Reis (Автор), Luana Pereira Margalho (Автор), Geovanna Lemos Lopes (Автор), Alison Ramos da Silva (Автор), Niele Silva de Moraes (Автор), Marília Brasil Xavier (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...