TY - JOUR
KW - Communicable Disease Control
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Global health
KW - Humans
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Prevalence
AU - Noordeen S K
AU - Roxas M G
AU - Fine PE
AU - Smith W C
AU - Feenstra P
AU - Gokhale S D
AU - Joo L K
AU - Huan-Ying L
AU - Khalafalla G
AU - Becx-Bleumink M
AU - Srinivasan H
AU - Rao C K
AU - Lechat M F
AU - Sansarricq H
AB - <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>
BT - World health forum
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8936264?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1996
IS - 2
J2 - World Health Forum
LA - eng
N2 - <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>
PY - 1996
SP - 109
EP - 44
T2 - World health forum
TI - Eliminating leprosy as a public health problem--is the optimism justified?
UR - http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/49255/1/WHF_1996_17%282%29_p109-144.pdf
VL - 17
SN - 0251-2432
ER -