About the Authors

Fred Bernardes Filho

Contributed equally to this work with: Fred Bernardes Filho, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Claudia Maria Lincoln Silva

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ CMLS, GV, MNL, ALRAR, GB, and NTF also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Glauber Voltan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ CMLS, GV, MNL, ALRAR, GB, and NTF also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Marcel Nani Leite

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ CMLS, GV, MNL, ALRAR, GB, and NTF also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Ana Laura Rosifini Alves Rezende

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ CMLS, GV, MNL, ALRAR, GB, and NTF also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Natália Aparecida de Paula

Contributed equally to this work with: Fred Bernardes Filho, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Josafá Gonçalves Barreto

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ CMLS, GV, MNL, ALRAR, GB, and NTF also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, Federal University of Pará, Castanhal, Brazil

Norma Tiraboschi Foss

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ CMLS, GV, MNL, ALRAR, GB, and NTF also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade

Contributed equally to this work with: Fred Bernardes Filho, Natália Aparecida de Paula, Marco Andrey Cipriani Frade

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mandrey@fmrp.usp.br

Affiliations Dermatology Division, Department of Medical Clinics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Center of National Reference in Sanitary Dermatology focusing on Leprosy of Ribeirão Preto Clinical Hospital, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.