In 2015, although the leprosy detection rate in Brazil reveals a high endemicity pattern with 14.07 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it is worth noting its geographic heterogeneity, with southern states ...

Individuals with indeterminate leprosy (I), untreated, evolved to tuberculoid (T) polar form or to the lepromatous (L) pole, depending on the immune response to M. leprae. 25 At the 1953 Congress of ...