Abstract:American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis (ATL) is a widely distributed anthropozoonosis caused by theprotozoa Leishmania spp. and is considered a serious public health problem. We aimed to assessManhuaçu’s burden caused by ATL through the profiling of all ATL case reports during the period from2010 to 2015. A descriptive, ecological and retrospective study of the confirmed cases of ATL wascarried out using data regarding the age, sex, area of residence, type of entry (new case or recurrence),and clinical form of the… Show more
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