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Leprosy New Case Detection Trends and the Future Effect of Preventive Interventions in Pará State, Brazil: A Modelling Study

BACKGROUND: Leprosy remains a public health problem in Brazil. Although the overall number of new cases is declining, there are still areas with a high disease burden, such as Pará State in the north of the country. We aim to predict future trends in new case detection rate (NCDR) and explore the po...

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Autores principales: de Matos, Haroldo José, Blok, David J., de Vlas, Sake J., Richardus, Jan Hendrik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4777416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26938738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004507