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

• Main Authors: Charlotte Gilkison (Author), Stephen Chambers (Author), David J Blok (Author), Jan Hendrik Richardus (Author), Eretii Timeon (Author), Erei Rimon (Author), Patricia Priest (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>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...