Leprosy cases diagnosed by contacts examination in a hyperendemic capital city of northeastern Brazil
An Bras Dermatol
.
2021 Jul-Aug;96(4):510-513.
doi: 10.1016/j.abd.2020.07.016.
Epub 2021 May 21.
Authors
Aruse Maria Marques Soares
1
,
Rita da Graça Carvalhal Frazão Corrêa
1
,
Kezia Cristina Batista Dos Santos
2
,
Ivan Abreu Figueiredo
3
,
Maria de Fátima Lires Paiva
4
,
Dorlene Maria Cardoso de Aquino
1
Affiliations
1
Department of Nursing, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, MA, Brazil.
2
Department of Collective Health, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, MA, Brazil. Electronic address: kezia_cristinabs@hotmail.com.
3
Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, MA, Brazil.
4
Department of Collective Health, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, MA, Brazil.
PMID:
34024665
PMCID:
PMC8245714
DOI:
10.1016/j.abd.2020.07.016
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Brazil / epidemiology
Humans
Leprosy* / diagnosis
Leprosy* / epidemiology
Mycobacterium leprae