Genetic, household and spatial clustering of leprosy on an island of Indonesia: A population-based study

BMC Medical Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bakker, Mirjam I ^a   May, Linda ^a   Hatta, Mochammad ^b   Kwenang, Agnes ^b   Klatser, Paul R ^a   Oskam, Linda ^a   Houwing Duistermaat, Jeanine J ^c  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFANT; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIBACILLARY LEPROSY; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SIBLING; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 28444456752     PISSN: 14712350     EISSN: 14712350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2350-6-40     Document Type: Article

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