Interruption and defaulting of multidrug therapy against leprosy: population-based study in Brazil's Savannah Region.

• Main Authors: Jorg Heukelbach (Author), Olga André Chichava (Author), Alexcian Rodrigues de Oliveira (Author), Kathrin Häfner (Author), Friederike Walther (Author), Carlos Henrique Morais de Alencar (Author), Alberto Novaes Ramos (Author), Adriana Cavalcante Ferreira (Author), Liana Ariza (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Low adherence to multidrug therapy against leprosy (MDT) is still an important obstacle of disease control, and may lead to remaining sources of infection, incomplete cure, irreversible complications, and multidrug resistance. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDING: We performed a population-base...