TY - JOUR
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Forecasting
KW - Humans
KW - Incidence
KW - India
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Prevalence
KW - Public health
KW - Sentinel Surveillance
KW - Time Factors
AU - Raja Rao B
AB - <p>MDT has made a visible impact on leprosy in Andhra Pradesh as reflected by reduction of prevalence as well as in new case-detection, which is used as a proxy for incidence of the disease. Such reductions have also been seen in West Godavari district and the Damien Leprosy Centre at Vegavaram (an NGO project), where MDT is being implemented since 1988.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16927847?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 2006 Apr-Jun
IS - 2
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>MDT has made a visible impact on leprosy in Andhra Pradesh as reflected by reduction of prevalence as well as in new case-detection, which is used as a proxy for incidence of the disease. Such reductions have also been seen in West Godavari district and the Damien Leprosy Centre at Vegavaram (an NGO project), where MDT is being implemented since 1988.</p>
PY - 2006
SP - 123
EP - 36
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - New case-detection trends in a multi-drug therapy programme: definite reduction in sight.
VL - 78
SN - 0254-9395
ER -