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LEPROSY ON ANJOUAN (COMOROS): PERSISTENT HYPER-ENDEMICITY DESPITE DECADES OF SOLID CONTROL EFFORTS
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Institute of Tropical Medicine. Belgium.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Damien Foundation. Belgium.
BELTA-TBnet. Belgium.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Aplicada a Micobactérias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Institute of Tropical Medicine. Belgium.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Leprosy and TB control program. Comoros.
Damien Foundation. Belgium.
BELTA-TBnet. Belgium.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Aplicada a Micobactérias. Rio de Janeiro, RJ. Brasil.
Institute of Tropical Medicine. Belgium.
Resumo
Despite decades of solid leprosy control efforts, the disease remains
highly endemic on the island of Anjouan, Comoros. Among a population of less than
400,000 over 300 new leprosy patients are diagnosed on average annually.
Methods: We analysed routine data for the period of 2000–2015 for trends in
epidemiological parameters and clustering in time and space.
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