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.
BT - The Journal of rheumatology C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8336320?dopt=Abstract DA - 1993 May IS - 5 J2 - J. Rheumatol. LA - eng N2 -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.
PY - 1993 SP - 893 EP - 6 T2 - The Journal of rheumatology TI - Leprosy: statistics in the Americas. VL - 20 SN - 0315-162X ER -