@article{25310,
  keywords = {leprosy, Epidemics, Children, Brazil},
  author = {LEVANTEZI M and MOREIRA T and NETO SS and DE JESUS AL},
  title = {Leprosy in children under fifteen years in Brazil, 2011},
  abstract = {<p>The aim of this study is to describe the occurrence of Hansen{\textquoteright}s disease in children under 15 years of age and to analyse the burden of disease in the same population in Brazil in 2011. This is a descriptive epidemiological study on the positive cases of Hansen{\textquoteright}s disease in minors below 15 years of age notified in Brazil. Data was collected from the Information System on Disease Notification for Hansen{\textquoteright}s disease cases, and the Brazilian Institute of Geographic Statistics for population data. The study{\textquoteright}s results showed that 2420 minors with Hansen{\textquoteright}s Disease in 2011 were distributed in 5565 cities, 692 cities registered the occurrence of 1 {\textendash} 10 cases of the disease, a total of 1489 cases (61\%); 35 cities showed 15 to 25 cases, 544 (22{\textperiodcentered}5\%); and eight cities notified 25 cases or more, totalling 87 cases (16\%), therefore, about one third of the Hansen{\textquoteright}s disease cases in minors under 15 years in Brazil in the year of 2011 are concentrated in 43 Brazilian cities.</p>
},
  year = {2014},
  journal = {Leprosy review},
  volume = {85},
  pages = {118-122},
  url = {https://leprosyreview.org/article/85/2/11-8122},
  language = {eng},
}