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. 2021 May 3;15(5):e0009382. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009382

Fig 1. Flow-diagram of the Fiocruz Hansen disease Reference Center Cohort.

Fig 1

The inclusion criteria considered patients who exhibited a BI higher than 0 at diagnosis, were treated with the 12-dose MB-MDT scheme between 1998–2018, and who were followed-up at the Souza Araujo Outpatient Clinic after release from treatment. Patients were followed-up at least annually (except for those censored because of age or death). Linkage of the clinic data with the National HD registry SINAN database was performed to retrieve any relapse cases not diagnosed at the clinic due to change of address. Then, the patients in the follow-up cohort were grouped according to the length of the 12-dose MB-MDT treatment. BI, bacillary index; MB, multibacillary; MDT, multidrug therapy.