title: Leprosy: statistics in the Americas.
abstract: While leprosy is a major problem in many countries, and an effective vaccine is still to come, improvement of public health methods appears to be, in addition to antileprosy drugs, the most meaningful solution. Widely diverging social, economic and environmental factors and differences in public health programs among regions, contribute to the uneven distribution of leprosy throughout the American continent.
authors.affiliation: University of São Paulo, Department of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Brazil.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cossermelli-Messina
mesh_terms: D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009656:North America; D015995:Prevalence; D013020:South America