Multibacillary leprosy by population groups in Brazil: Lessons from an observational study.

• Main Authors: Mauricio Lisboa Nobre (Author), Ximena Illarramendi (Author), Kathryn Margaret Dupnik (Author), Mariana de Andrea Hacker (Author), José Augusto da Costa Nery (Author), Selma Maria Bezerra Jerônimo (Author), Euzenir Nunes Sarno (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Leprosy remains an important public health problem in Brazil where 28,761 new cases were diagnosed in 2015, the second highest number of new cases detected globally. The disease is caused by Mycobacterium leprae, a pathogen spread by patients with multibacillary (MB) leprosy. This study w...