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Recent Food Shortage Is Associated with Leprosy Disease in Bangladesh: A Case-Control Study

BACKGROUND: Leprosy is remaining prevalent in the poorest areas of the world. Intensive control programmes with multidrug therapy (MDT) reduced the number of registered cases in these areas, but transmission of Mycobacterium leprae continues in most endemic countries. Socio-economic circumstances ar...

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Autores principales: Feenstra, Sabiena G., Nahar, Quamrun, Pahan, David, Oskam, Linda, Richardus, Jan Hendrik
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21572979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001029