Can leprosy be eradicated with chemotherapy? An evaluation of the Malta Leprosy Eradication Project

Leprosy Review

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 410-415

  Jacobson, Robert R ^a   Gatt, Paul ^b  

^a Boffa Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b Boffa Hospital   (Malta)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPRODIAN; RIFAMPICIN; DAPSONE; ISONIAZID; LEPROSTATIC AGENT; PROTIONAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERADICATION THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LEPROSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALTA; RELAPSE; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DAPSONE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY; MALE; MALTA; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROTHIONAMIDE; RIFAMPIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63049125169     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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