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

• Main Authors: Josafá Gonçalves Barreto (Author), Donal Bisanzio (Author), Layana de Souza Guimarães (Author), John Stewart Spencer (Author), Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec (Author), Uriel Kitron (Author), Claudio Guedes Salgado (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...