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

• Hoofdauteurs: Dorcas O Ogunsumi (Auteur), Vivek Lal (Auteur), Karl Philipp Puchner (Auteur), Wim van Brakel (Auteur), Eva-Maria Schwie (Auteur), Christa Kasang (Auteur), Joseph Chukwu (Auteur), Saskia Kreibich (Auteur), Sandra Parisi (Auteur), Jan Hendrik Richardus (Auteur), David J Blok (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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<h4>Background</h4>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 a...