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Natural environmental water sources in endemic regions of northeastern Brazil are potential reservoirs of viable Mycobacterium leprae

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2017

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Maria Luísa Bezerra de Macedo Arraes, Maísa Viana de Holanda, Luana Nepomuceno Gondim Costa Lima, José Antônio Beltrão Sabadia, Cynthia Romariz Duarte, Rosa Lívia Freitas de Almeida, Carl Kendall, Lígia Regina Franco Sansigolo Kerr, Cristiane Cunha Frota
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Abstract

The finding of viable M. leprae in natural water sources associated with human contact suggests that the environment plays an important role in maintaining endemic leprosy in the study region.

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