Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015

Leprosy patients can present reactions during the course of the disease. There are no official data on these reactions in Brazil. We aimed to describe the epidemiological characteristics of patients with such reactions, analyzing information from patient records at a referral center in Campinas (SP)...

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Autores principales: Ambrosano, Letícia, dos Santos, Marcel Alex Soares, Machado, Elaine Cristina Faria Abrahão, Pegas, Elisangela Samartin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2018
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29924248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20187260
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author Ambrosano, Letícia
dos Santos, Marcel Alex Soares
Machado, Elaine Cristina Faria Abrahão
Pegas, Elisangela Samartin
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description Leprosy patients can present reactions during the course of the disease. There are no official data on these reactions in Brazil. We aimed to describe the epidemiological characteristics of patients with such reactions, analyzing information from patient records at a referral center in Campinas (SP), from 2010 to 2015.
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spelling pubmed-60011092018-06-19 Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015 Ambrosano, Letícia dos Santos, Marcel Alex Soares Machado, Elaine Cristina Faria Abrahão Pegas, Elisangela Samartin An Bras Dermatol Communication Leprosy patients can present reactions during the course of the disease. There are no official data on these reactions in Brazil. We aimed to describe the epidemiological characteristics of patients with such reactions, analyzing information from patient records at a referral center in Campinas (SP), from 2010 to 2015. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6001109/ /pubmed/29924248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20187260 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivative License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited and the work is not changed in any way.
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Ambrosano, Letícia
dos Santos, Marcel Alex Soares
Machado, Elaine Cristina Faria Abrahão
Pegas, Elisangela Samartin
Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015
title Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015
title_full Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015
title_fullStr Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015
title_short Epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in Campinas (SP), Brazil, 2010-2015
title_sort epidemiological profile of leprosy reactions in a referral center in campinas (sp), brazil, 2010-2015
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001109/
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