Abstract
Leishmaniasis in Chaparé, Bolivia
Highlights
Households in both communities were visited by a team of experienced medical staff who interviewed heads of household to collect demographic data and diagnose the clinical condition of all present household members by using a standardized, pretested questionnaire
Active lesion and scar prevalence were associated with male sex (lesions: Fisher exact test, odds ratio [OR] = 7.90 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.01–169.09], p
Children 15 years (Figure)
Summary
LETTERS and Carlos Eduardo Melo for support for viral load determination, and the blood donors who kindly consented to participate in this study. Kátia Luz Torres, Adriana Malheiro, Adriana Tateno, Tatiane Amabile de Lima, Laura Patricia Viana Maia, João Paulo Diniz Pimentel, Márcia Poinho Encarnação de Morais, Christiane Santana de Melo Usui, Flavia de Oliveira Braga, Igor Araújo Ferreira Silva, Felicien Vasquez, and José Eduardo Levi. Author affiliations: Fundação de Hematologia e Hemoterapia do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazon, Brazil T.A. de Lima, L.P.V. Maia, J.P.D. Pimentel, M.P.E. de Morais, C.S. de Melo Usui, F. F. de Oliveira Braga, I.A.F. Silva); and Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (J.E. Levi)
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