Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae for better understanding of leprosy transmission in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil

Leprosy is endemic in large part of Brazil with 28,761 new patients in 2015, the second largest number worldwide and reaches 9/10.000 in highly endemic regions and 2.7/10.000 in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará, Northeast Brazil. For better understanding of risk factors for leprosy transmission, we cond...

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Autores principales: Fontes, Amanda N. B., Lima, Luana N. G. C., Mota, Rosa M. S., Almeida, Rosa L. F., Pontes, Maria A., Gonçalves, Heitor de S., Frota, Cristiane C., Vissa, Varalakshmi D., Brennan, Patrick J., Guimaraes, Ricardo J. P. S., Kendall, Carl, Kerr, Ligia R. F. S., Suffys, Philip N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5747459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29244821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006117

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5747459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29244821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006117

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