Indeterminate leprosy and lepromatous index case: four cases in the same family

• Main Authors: Vanessa Priscilla Martins da Silva (Author), Heloisa Helena Ramos Fonseca (Author), Mariana Mazzochi Sens (Author), Alvaro Thadeu Bender (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, which primarily affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Brazil remains as the country with the second largest number of cases in the world. We report the case of three patients diagnosed with indeterminate leprosy in the same fa...