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Leprosy [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers
Leprosy, a neglected tropical disease, causes significant morbidity in marginalized communities. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, annual new case detection plateaued for over a decade at ~200,000 new cases. The clinical phenotypes of leprosy strongly parallel host immunity to its causative agents Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis.
Yin, Yu, Sheng, Zhong, Qiao, Liu, Lin, Feng   +3 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Leprosy [PDF]

The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1904
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Pride and prejudice--identity and stigma in leprosy work. [PDF]

, 2011
This article sets out to expand the way stigma, and those affected by it, are understood within leprosy discourse and to apply these insights to the analysis of the experiences of leprosy workers.
Harris, Kristine
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Human immunodeficiency virus and leprosy: an update. [PDF]

, 2011
Coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has a major effect on the natural history of many infectious diseases, particularly mycobacterial diseases.
Lambert, Saba M, Saba M. Lambert, Diana N.J. Lockwood, Lockwood, Diana NJ   +3 more
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The spatial distribution of leprosy cases during 15 years of a leprosy control program in Bangladesh: An observational study [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: An uneven spatial distribution of leprosy can be caused by the influence of geography on the distribution of risk factors over the area, or by population characteristics that are heterogeneously distributed over the area.
Chowdhury, SK, Chowdhury, S. (Susmita), Fischer EAJ, SK Chowdhury, Richardus JH, Pahan, D. (David), EAJ Fischer, Richardus, J.H., Chowdhury, S.K., Fischer, EAJ, Pahan, D, Fischer, E.A.J., pahan, D., Fisher, E. (Eric), Pahan D, Richardus, Jan hendrik; id_orcid, Chowdhury SK, Richardus, J.H. (Jan Hendrik), JH Richardus, D Pahan   +19 more
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The INFIR Cohort Study: investigating prediction, detection and pathogenesis of neuropathy and reactions in leprosy. Methods and baseline results of a cohort of multibacillary leprosy patients in North India [PDF]

, 2005
The aim of this study was to find predictors of neuropathy and reactions, determine the most sensitive methods for detecting peripheral neuropathy, study the pathogenesis of neuropathy and reactions and create a bank of specimen, backed up by detailed ...
Desikan, K.V., Barkataki, P, Maddali, P., Wilder-Smith, E., Maddali, Pranava, Suneetha, SK, Desikan, KV, Das, Loretta, Nicholls, PG, Suneetha, S.K., Das, L., Lockwood, Diana NJ, Barkataki, P., Maddali, P, Lockwood, D.N.J., Lockwood, DNJ, Van Brakel, WH, van Brakel, Wim H, Wilder-Smith, Einar, Van, Brakel W.H., Suneetha, Sujai K, Nicholls, Peter G, Jadhav, Rupendra S, Nicholls, P.G., Jadhav, R.S., Wilder-Smith, E, Barkataki, Pramila, Das, L, van Brakel, W.H., Jadhav, RS   +29 more
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Migration and leprosy in Brazil [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Leprosy is among the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), and is an endemic public health problem in high-risk clusters throughout Brazil. Leprosy is caused by the intracellular bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the skin and peripheral ...
Murto, Christine
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Patterns of migration and risks associated with leprosy among migrants in Maranhão, Brazil [PDF]

, 2013
Leprosy remains a public health problem in Brazil with new case incidence exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) goals in endemic clusters throughout the country.
Heukelbach, Jorg, Jorg Heukelbach, Schwarz Karolin, da Costa Lea Marcia Melo, Murto, Christine, Murto Christine, Charles Kaplan, Charles Kaplan (507), Frédérique Chammartin, Heukelbach Jorg, Chammartin, Frédérique, Schwarz, Karolin, Kaplan, Charles, Christine Murto (454818), Lea Marcia Melo da Costa (454821), Lea Marcia Melo da Costa, Frédérique Chammartin (454819), Chammartin Frédérique, Karolin Schwarz, Jorg Heukelbach (142653), Kaplan Charles, da Costa, Lea Marcia Melo, Christine Murto, Karolin Schwarz (454820)   +23 more
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Integration of leprosy elimination into primary health care in orissa, India. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Leprosy was eliminated as a public health problem (
Rao Bandaru Bhaskar, Soutar Douglas, Surendra Pati, Siddiqui, M Ruby, Bijaya M Ojha, Velidi, Nageswara Rao, Nilambar Rath, Siddiqui M. Ruby, Ranganadha Rao Pemmaraju V., Bandaru Bhaskar Rao, Porter John D. H., Nageswara Rao Velidi, Rao, Bandaru Bhaskar, Amiya K Bhanjadeo, Porter, John DH, Bhanjadeo Amiya K., Pati Surendra, Bhanjadeo, Amiya K, Velidi Nageswara Rao, Ojha, Bijaya M, Pati, Surendra, Soutar, Douglas, Rath, Nilambar, John D H Porter, Kodyur Krishna Moorthy, Ranganadha Rao, Pemmaraju V, Ojha Bijaya M., Douglas Soutar, Krishna Moorthy Kodyur, Pemmaraju V Ranganadha Rao, Rath Nilambar, Kanungo, Akshay K, Kanungo Akshay K., Akshay K Kanungo, M Ruby Siddiqui, Krishna Moorthy, Kodyur   +35 more
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