Recent food shortage is associated with leprosy disease in Bangladesh: a case-control study.

• Main Authors: Sabiena G Feenstra (Author), Quamrun Nahar (Author), David Pahan (Author), Linda Oskam (Author), Jan Hendrik Richardus (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Leprosy is remaining prevalent in the poorest areas of the world. Intensive control programmes with multidrug therapy (MDT) reduced the number of registered cases in these areas, but transmission of Mycobacterium leprae continues in most endemic countries. Socio-economic circumstances ar...