High occurrence of disabilities caused by leprosy: census from a hyperendemic area in Brazil’s savannah region
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KATHRIN HAEFNER*, FRIEDERIKE WALTHER**, OLGA ANDRÉ CHICHAVA***, LIANA ARIZA***, CARLOS HENRIQUE ALENCAR***, MARIA DE JESUS FREITAS DE ALENCAR***, ALBERTO NOVAES RAMOS JR.***, JOACHIM RICHTER**** & JORG HEUKELBACH******** *School of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University, Dusseldorf, Germany **School of Medicine, University of Cologne, Germany ***Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil ****Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany *****College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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تاریخ انتشار 2017