Leprosy Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (LPEP) programme: study protocol for evaluating the feasibility and impact on case detection rates of contact tracing and single dose rifampicin

INTRODUCTION: The reported number of new leprosy patients has barely changed in recent years. Thus, additional approaches or modifications to the current standard of passive case detection are needed to interrupt leprosy transmission. Large-scale clinical trials with single dose rifampicin (SDR) giv...

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Autores principales: Barth-Jaeggi, Tanja, Steinmann, Peter, Mieras, Liesbeth, van Brakel, Wim, Richardus, Jan Hendrik, Tiwari, Anuj, Bratschi, Martin, Cavaliero, Arielle, Vander Plaetse, Bart, Mirza, Fareed, Aerts, Ann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Health Services Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5128948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27856484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013633

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5128948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27856484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013633

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