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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Sabiena G Feenstra (लेखक), Quamrun Nahar (लेखक), David Pahan (लेखक), Linda Oskam (लेखक), Jan Hendrik Richardus (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...