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The contribution of stigma to the transmission and treatment of tuberculosis in a hyperendemic indigenous population in Brazil

BACKGROUND: The Guarani-Kaiowá are Brazil's second-largest indigenous group. Average annual tuberculosis (TB) incidence rates among the Guarani-Kaiowá are nearly 400/100,000 in Mato Grosso do Sul state, ten times the national average. Although stigma is considered crucial for TB control in indi...

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Autores principales: Kolte, Ida Viktoria, Pereira, Lucia, Benites, Aparecida, de Sousa, Islândia Maria Carvalho, Basta, Paulo Cesar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7743939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33326453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243988