Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae for better understanding of leprosy transmission in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Amanda N B Fontes (लेखक), Luana N G C Lima (लेखक), Rosa M S Mota (लेखक), Rosa L F Almeida (लेखक), Maria A Pontes (लेखक), Heitor de S Gonçalves (लेखक), Cristiane C Frota (लेखक), Varalakshmi D Vissa (लेखक), Patrick J Brennan (लेखक), Ricardo J P S Guimaraes (लेखक), Carl Kendall (लेखक), Ligia R F S Kerr (लेखक), Philip N Suffys (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Leprosy is endemic in large part of Brazil with 28,761 new patients in 2015, the second largest number worldwide and reaches 9/10.000 in highly endemic regions and 2.7/10.000 in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Northeast Brazil. For better understanding of risk factors for leprosy transmission, we con...