Spatial Analysis Spotlighting Early Childhood Leprosy Transmission in a Hyperendemic Municipality of the Brazilian Amazon Region

BACKGROUND: More than 200,000 new cases of leprosy were reported by 105 countries in 2011. The disease is a public health problem in Brazil, particularly within high-burden pockets in the Amazon region where leprosy is hyperendemic among children. METHODOLOGY: We applied geographic information syste...

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Autores principales: Barreto, Josafá Gonçalves, Bisanzio, Donal, Guimarães, Layana de Souza, Spencer, John Stewart, Vazquez-Prokopec, Gonzalo M., Kitron, Uriel, Salgado, Claudio Guedes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24516679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002665

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24516679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002665

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