title: Needed research in chemotherapy of leprosy related to the individual patient.
abstract: The chemotherapy of leprosy was rendered markedly more effective by the introduction of WHO/MDT in 1981. The prospects for further improvements, both by shortening duration and by developing fully supervisable intermittent regimens, appear good at this time. These developments should aid the efforts to attain the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public health problem. For the foreseeable future, however, the goal of eradication of leprosy will continue to elude us.
authors.affiliation: Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, Louisiana, USA.
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Jacobson
mesh_terms: D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D006801:Humans; D007917:Leprostatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D007918:Leprosy / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D007917:Leprostatic Agents