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Profile of leprosy in children under 15 years of age monitored in a Brazilian referral center (2004-2012)

Leprosy in children under 15 years of age is a serious public health problem. In this retrospective case series conducted in a Brazilian reference center (2004-2012), we found 18 cases with a mean age of 10.0±3.6 years of age and 16.6% between 0-5 years of age. Almost 56% of the cases were female, w...

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Autores principales: Pinto, Ana Cecília Versiani Duarte, Wachholz, Patrick Alexander, da Silva, Gardenia Viana, Masuda, Paula Yoshiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28954121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20175676