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Evidence of hidden leprosy in a supposedly low endemic area of Brazil

Overview of attention for article published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, December 2017
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Title
Evidence of hidden leprosy in a supposedly low endemic area of Brazil
Published in
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, December 2017
DOI 10.1590/0074-02760170173
Pubmed ID
29211243
Authors

Fred Bernardes Filho, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Marcel Nani Leite, Thania Loyola Cordeiro Abi-Rached, Sebastian Vernal, Moises Batista da Silva, Josafá Gonçalves Barreto, John Stewart Spencer, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade

Abstract

Show that hidden endemic leprosy exists in a municipality of inner São Paulo state (Brazil) with active surveillance actions based on clinical and immunological evaluations. The study sample was composed by people randomly selected by a dermatologist during medical care in the public emergency department and by active surveillance carried out during two days at a mobile clinic. All subjects received a dermato-neurological examination and blood sampling to determine anti-PGL-I antibody titers by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). From July to December 2015, 24 new cases of leprosy were diagnosed; all were classified as multibacillary (MB) leprosy, one with severe Lucio's phenomenon. Seventeen (75%) were found with grade-1 or 2 disability at the moment of diagnosis. Anti-PGL-I titer was positive in 31/133 (23.3%) individuals, only 6/24 (25%) were positive in newly diagnosed leprosy cases. During the last ten years before this study, the average new case detection rate (NCDR) in this town was 2.62/100,000 population. After our work, the NCDR was raised to 42.8/100,000. These results indicate a very high number of hidden leprosy cases in this supposedly low endemic area of Brazil.

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Unknown 49 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 24%
Student > Master 9 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Researcher 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 7 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 37%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 8%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 7 14%

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#10,140,624
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Outputs from Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
#730
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#233,495
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Outputs of similar age from Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
#12
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