Abstract:Organization showed that worldwide new case detection was 228,474 in 2010. In Brazil, there were 34,894 new cases diagnosed, with 2,241 reported in children (6.4%), indicating that there are still areas where leprosy is clearly a health problem. Although it is true that Brazil remains one of the last remaining countries yet to reach the goal of less than one new case per 10,000 population, the degree to which the public primary health care service and Brazilian leprologists are working towards detecting and tr… Show more
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