BCG Vaccination Status, Age, and Gender as Risk Factors for Leprosy in Endemic Areas in the Brazilian Amazon
In 2018, 208,619 new cases of leprosy were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of these, 30,957 occurred in the Americas region and 28,660 (92.6% of the total in the Americas) were reported in Brazil. This study aimed to show the reality of the profile of a population in an endemic lepr...
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Main Authors: | Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima (Author), Jasna Letícia Pinto Paz (Author), Maria do Perpétuo Socorro Corrêa Amador Silvestre (Author), Letícia Siqueira Moura (Author), Ismari Perini Furlaneto (Author), Karla Valéria Batista Lima (Author) |
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2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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