Leprosy in elderly people and the profile of a retrospective cohort in an endemic region of the Brazilian Amazon

BACKGROUND: Leprosy has a global presence; more than 180 thousand new cases were registered in 2013, 15% of which were found in the Americas. The elderly are a very susceptible demographic in terms of developing illnesses, mainly because of characteristics natural to the senescence of the human orga...

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Autores principales: Oliveira, João Sérgio de Sousa, dos Reis, Ana Luisa Mendes, Margalho, Luana Pereira, Lopes, Geovanna Lemos, da Silva, Alison Ramos, de Moraes, Niele Silva, Xavier, Marília Brasil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31479442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007709

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31479442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007709

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