Objective To evaluate the epidemiological characteristics and tendency of new leprosy cases in people younger than 15 years in the state of Bahia, Brazil, between 2007 and 2017. Method Quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive study of cases registered in the Notifiable Diseases Information System. The sociodemographic variables were statistically analyzed through the G-test and trend classification was analyzed through linear regression, along with the tendency or percentage change. Results The study comprised 2,298 new cases and presented decreasing rate of detection, growing proportion of investigated contacts, and decreasing proportion of healing. Paucibacillary cases are emphasized, with a 63.27% proportion and predominance among fema...
BACKGROUND: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It is considered...
Leprosy still represents a serious public health problem in Brazil and in the world. Despite the sig...
Leprosy is a disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. It is considered a public health p...
Objective: to evaluate the epidemiological profile of leprosy in the North and Northeast regions of ...
Objective: To describe the clinical and epidemiological profile of new cases of leprosy in people ag...
Our study aims to describe trends in new case detection rate (NCDR) of leprosy in Brazil from 2006 t...
Objective: To reveal the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients diagnosed with le...
Objective: To reveal the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients diagnosed with lep...
Objective: To analyze the epidemiological aspects of leprosy in a municipality in northeastern Brazi...
Leprosy is an infectious and contagious disease affecting skin and nerves. The number of cases in in...
One of the important but little discussed issues is the unequal epidemiological pattern of occurrenc...
The objective of this study was to characterize epidemiological and temporal trends of leprosy in ...
Objective: to analyze the epidemiological trends of leprosy in an endemic state. Methods: ecological...
A hanseníase é uma doença infecto-contagiosa crônica granulomatosa que acomete a pele e os nervos pe...
Introduction: Leprosy is an infectious and contagious disease, chronic, disabling, with high infecti...
BACKGROUND: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It is considered...
Leprosy still represents a serious public health problem in Brazil and in the world. Despite the sig...
Leprosy is a disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. It is considered a public health p...
Objective: to evaluate the epidemiological profile of leprosy in the North and Northeast regions of ...
Objective: To describe the clinical and epidemiological profile of new cases of leprosy in people ag...
Our study aims to describe trends in new case detection rate (NCDR) of leprosy in Brazil from 2006 t...
Objective: To reveal the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients diagnosed with le...
Objective: To reveal the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients diagnosed with lep...
Objective: To analyze the epidemiological aspects of leprosy in a municipality in northeastern Brazi...
Leprosy is an infectious and contagious disease affecting skin and nerves. The number of cases in in...
One of the important but little discussed issues is the unequal epidemiological pattern of occurrenc...
The objective of this study was to characterize epidemiological and temporal trends of leprosy in ...
Objective: to analyze the epidemiological trends of leprosy in an endemic state. Methods: ecological...
A hanseníase é uma doença infecto-contagiosa crônica granulomatosa que acomete a pele e os nervos pe...
Introduction: Leprosy is an infectious and contagious disease, chronic, disabling, with high infecti...
BACKGROUND: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It is considered...
Leprosy still represents a serious public health problem in Brazil and in the world. Despite the sig...
Leprosy is a disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae. It is considered a public health p...