Interruption of persistent exposure to leprosy combined or not with recent BCG vaccination enhances the response to Mycobacterium leprae specific antigens.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Fernanda Marques de Carvalho (مؤلف), Luciana Silva Rodrigues (مؤلف), Nádia Cristina Duppre (مؤلف), Iris Maria Peixoto Alvim (مؤلف), Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves (مؤلف), Roberta Olmo Pinheiro (مؤلف), Euzenir Nunes Sarno (مؤلف), Maria Cristina Vidal Pessolani (مؤلف), Geraldo Moura Batista Pereira (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• الموضوعات: article
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Household contacts of multibacillary leprosy patients (HCMB) constitute the group of individuals at the highest risk of developing leprosy. Early diagnosis and treatment of their index cases combined with Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunization remain important strategies adopted in Brazil to pre...