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. 2017 Mar 16;40(1):31–39. doi: 10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2016-0268

Table 3. Number of LSD diagnoses in patients from foreign countries*.

Region Number of patients
Latin America 91
Argentina 9
Bolivia 1
Chile 39
Colombia 4
Cuba 3
Mexico 5
Nicaragua 1
Panama 2
Paraguay 2
Peru 16
Uruguay 9
Other 21
Algeria 3
Iran 3
Libya 1
Saudi Arabia 13
United Arab Emirates 1
Total 112
*

For most diagnoses, DBS samples were used and the result was confirmed in a second DBS sample in most cases (in just a few foreign cases it was possible to obtain a viable blood sample to perform the confirmation in leukocytes).