@article{18919,
  keywords = {Communicable Disease Control, Drug Therapy, Combination, Global health, Humans, Leprostatic Agents, leprosy, Prevalence},
  author = {Noordeen S K and Roxas M G and Fine PE and Smith W C and Feenstra P and Gokhale S D and Joo L K and Huan-Ying L and Khalafalla G and Becx-Bleumink M and Srinivasan H and Rao C K and Lechat M F and Sansarricq H},
  title = {Eliminating leprosy as a public health problem--is the optimism justified?},
  abstract = {<p>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.</p>},
  year = {1996},
  journal = {World health forum},
  volume = {17},
  pages = {109-44},
  month = {1996},
  issn = {0251-2432},
  url = {http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/49255/1/WHF_1996_17%282%29_p109-144.pdf},
  language = {eng},
}