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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...
Autores principales: | Barreto, Josafá Gonçalves, Bisanzio, Donal, Guimarães, Layana de Souza, Spencer, John Stewart, Vazquez-Prokopec, Gonzalo M., Kitron, Uriel, Salgado, Claudio Guedes |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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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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