Leprosy and gender in Brazil: trends in an endemic area of the Northeast region, 2001-2014

• Main Authors: Eliana Amorim de Souza (Author), Anderson Fuentes Ferreira (Author), Reagan Nzundu Boigny (Author), Carlos Henrique Alencar (Author), Jorg Heukelbach (Author), Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo (Author), Jaqueline Caracas Barbosa (Author), Alberto Novaes Ramos Jr (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze, stratifield by gender, trends of the new case leprosy detection rates in the general population and in children; of grade 2 disability, and of proportion of multibacillary cases, in the state of Bahia, Brazil from 2001 to 2014. METHODS A time series study based on lepr...