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

PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Dec 2017

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

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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 conducted an epidemiologic study supplemented by 17 locus VNTR and SNP 1-4 typing of Mycobacterium leprae in skin biopsy...

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Brazil
Cluster Analysis
Genotype
Geography
Humans
Leprosy
Minisatellite Repeats
Molecular Epidemiology
Mycobacterium leprae
Risk Factors

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PMID: 29244821
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006117
PMCID: PMC5747459

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