TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Brazil
KW - Child
KW - Child, Preschool
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Myanmar
KW - Nigeria
KW - Philippines
KW - Population Surveillance
KW - Schools
KW - Thailand
AU - Bechelli L M
AU - Gallego Garbajosa P
AU - Uemura K
AU - Sundaresan T
AU - Tamondong C
AU - Martinez Dominguez V
AU - Sansarricq H
AU - Walter J
AB - <p>The authors suggest that, where leprosy prevalence data for the entire population are lacking, the prevalence in schoolchildren may be a valuable index for estimating the magnitude of the problem in areas where leprosy is endemic.</p>
BT - Bulletin of the World Health Organization
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4271759?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1973
IS - 4
J2 - Bull. World Health Organ.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The authors suggest that, where leprosy prevalence data for the entire population are lacking, the prevalence in schoolchildren may be a valuable index for estimating the magnitude of the problem in areas where leprosy is endemic.</p>
PY - 1973
SP - 502
EP - 3
T2 - Bulletin of the World Health Organization
TI - Proposed method for estimating leprosy prevalence based on rates in children.
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481096/pdf/bullwho00177-0116.pdf
VL - 48
SN - 0042-9686
ER -