Spatial analysis spotlighting early childhood leprosy transmission in a hyperendemic municipality of the Brazilian Amazon region.

• Главные авторы: Josafá Gonçalves Barreto (Автор), Donal Bisanzio (Автор), Layana de Souza Guimarães (Автор), John Stewart Spencer (Автор), Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec (Автор), Uriel Kitron (Автор), Claudio Guedes Salgado (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND: More than 200,000 new cases of leprosy were reported by 105 countries in 2011. The disease is a public health problem in Brazil, particularly within high-burden pockets in the Amazon region where leprosy is hyperendemic among children. METHODOLOGY: We applied geographic information syste...