title: What do we actually know about leprosy worldwide?
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Marituba, Pará, Brazil. Electronic address: csalgado@ufpa.br.
authors.forename: Claudio Guedes
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Salgado
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Marituba, Pará, Brazil; Universidade Federal do Pará, Campus Castanhal, Pará, Brazil.
authors.forename: Josafá Gonçalves
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Barreto
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Dermato-Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Marituba, Pará, Brazil.
authors.forename: Moisés Batista
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Dermatologia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo em Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marco Andrey Cipriani
authors.initials: MAC
authors.lastname: Frade
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
authors.forename: John Stewart
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Spencer
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy