Predicting the impact of household contact and mass chemoprophylaxis on future new leprosy cases in South Tarawa, Kiribati: A modelling study

BACKGROUND: The country of Kiribati is a small Pacific island nation which had a new case detection rate of 191 per 100,000 in 2016, and is one of the few countries yet to reach the WHO leprosy elimination goal. Chemoprophylaxis of household contacts of new cases, or to the whole population in a hig...

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Autores principales: Gilkison, Charlotte, Chambers, Stephen, Blok, David J., Richardus, Jan Hendrik, Timeon, Eretii, Rimon, Erei, Priest, Patricia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31539374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007646

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6754131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31539374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007646

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