Eliminating leprosy as a public health problem--is the optimism justified?
Systematic use of multidrug therapy has proved to be so effective that leprosy can be eliminated as a public health problem by the end of the century. However, because of the long incubation period of this disease, together with the time-lag in case detection, the factors involved in achieving and sustaining its elimination have to be very carefully defined.
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Action Programme for the Elimination of Leprosy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Roxas
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Fine
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Smith
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Feenstra
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Gokhale
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Joo
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Huan-Ying
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Khalafalla
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Becx-Bleumink
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Srinivasan
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Rao
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Lechat
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Sansarricq
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D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007917:Leprostatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007918:Leprosy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence
D007917:Leprostatic Agents