Widespread nasal carriage of Mycobacterium lepraeamong a healthy population in a hyperendemic region of northeastern Brazil

A case-control study was conducted to determine the presence ofMycobacterium lepraeDNA in nasal secretions of leprosy cases and nonleprosy individuals in Fortaleza, Brazil. It included 185 cases identified by physicians at the Dona Libânia National Reference Centre for Sanitary Dermatology (CDERM)....

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Main Authors: Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, Cristiane Cunha Frota, Rosa Maria Salani Mota, Rosa Livia Freitas Almeida, Maria Araci de Andrade Pontes, Heitor de Sá Gonçalves, Laura Cunha Rodrigues, Carl Kendall, Ligia Kerr
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Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2015-11-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762015000700898&lng=en&tlng=en