Noordeen S K, Roxas M G, Fine P E, Smith W C, Feenstra P, Gokhale S D, Joo L K, Huan-Ying L, Khalafalla G, Becx-Bleumink M, Srinivasan H, Rao C K, Lechat M F, Sansarricq H
Action Programme for the Elimination of Leprosy, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
World Health Forum. 1996;17(2):109-44.
Systematic use of multidrug therapy has proved to be so effective that leprosy can be eliminated as a public health problem by the end of the century. However, because of the long incubation period of this disease, together with the time-lag in case detection, the factors involved in achieving and sustaining its elimination have to be very carefully defined.
系统使用多种药物治疗已被证明非常有效,以至于到本世纪末麻风病可作为一个公共卫生问题被消除。然而,由于这种疾病的潜伏期长,加上病例发现存在时间滞后,实现并维持消除该疾病所涉及的因素必须非常仔细地界定。