Infection by Mycobacterium leprae of household contacts of lepromatous leprosy patients from a post-elimination leprosy region of Colombia

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 703-707

  Cardona Castro, Nora M ^a   Restrepo Jaramillo, Sandra ^a   De La Ossa, Myriam Gil ^b   Brennan, Patrick J ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CES   (Colombia)

^b Empresa Social del Estado Metrosalud   (Colombia)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Colombia; Household contact infection; Mycobacterium leprae; Post elimination leprosy region

Indexed keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

EID: 31544473751     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762005000700003     Document Type: Article

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