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Over the past decades, the conditions of leprosy control implementation have changed dramatically. Introduction of multidrug therapy, together with the global effort of the World Health Organization to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem, defined as less than one patient per 10.000 inhabitants, had a tremendous impact on leprosy control, particularly by decreasing the registered prevalence of the disease. The incidence, however, has not declined in recent years.
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Faber, W.R., Klatser, P.R. (2003). Elimination of Leprosy and its Consequences for Research. In: Marzuki, S., Verhoef, J., Snippe, H. (eds) Tropical Diseases. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 531. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0059-9_25
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