Bechelli LM, Gallego Garbajosa P, Uemura K, Sundaresan T, Tamondong C, Martínez Domínguez V, Sansarricq H, Walter J. Proposed method for estimating leprosy prevalence based on rates in children.
Bull World Health Organ 1973;
48:502-3. [PMID:
4271759 PMCID:
PMC2481096]
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Abstract
The authors suggest that, where leprosy prevalence data for the entire population are lacking, the prevalence in schoolchildren may be a valuable index for estimating the magnitude of the problem in areas where leprosy is endemic.
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