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Measuring endemicity and burden of leprosy across countries and regions: A systematic review and Delphi survey

BACKGROUND: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, the annual new case detection in 2019 was 202,189 globally. Measuring endemicity levels and burden in leprosy lacks a uniform approach. As a result, the assessment of leprosy endemicity or burden are not comparable o...

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Autores principales: Ogunsumi, Dorcas O., Lal, Vivek, Puchner, Karl Philipp, van Brakel, Wim, Schwienhorst-Stich, Eva-Maria, Kasang, Christa, Chukwu, Joseph, Kreibich, Saskia, Parisi, Sandra, Richardus, Jan Hendrik, Blok, David J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8483296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34543282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009769